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AppGameKit Classic Chat / [SOLVED] What does ~~ mean in Tier 1 code?

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DavidAGK
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I'm looking through some encyption code kindly supplied by BatVink a while back and can see there's a "~~" in the code (SetMemblockByte(mbMain, n-40,GetMemblockByte(mb, n) ~~ val(mid(cCODE,codeCounter,1)))

What does ~~ mean?!?

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Loktofeit
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I'm not sure why, but I remember something about that turning a FLOAT into an INT.
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~~ is the bitwise XOR operator. You can read about bitwise operators at the bottom of this page: https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/principles/2_operators.htm
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Great thanks! I did search the manual.... but ~~ didn't return anything! Ha ha!

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It's a tilde ~ not a dash -
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Yes thanks.

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Super useful for toggle switches.

Instead of:


use:

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Aaah! Cool! I'll use that!

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