Is there any way to use vertical bar - | - between variables?

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I want a short way in logical conditions while controlling if more than one variables are greater or lower than a constant number. Such as for a Rectangle rect;

if(rect.Left > 10 | rect.Top > 10 | rect.Bottom > 10 | rect.Right > 10)

this logical condition can be more easy with this use of "|";

if(rect.Left | rect.Top | rect.Bottom | rect.Right > 10)

This means if left or top or bottom or right greater than 10 return true.

I hope I am clear in my question.

Posted 10-Sep-15 11:04am

Amt-Coder

Updated 11-Sep-15 7:48am

Sean Ewington

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Philippe Mori 10-Sep-15 23:47pm

By the way, logical or operator is || anot |. The first one will only evaluate conditions until the answer is known and also have a more intuitive operator precedence. You should uses | only for binary or (bit per bit OR).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Sep-15 1:00am

Not exactly. Logical operators are || or |. The second one is for full evaluation without shortcut. So, code with | is not optimal, but correct, at least when side effect don't make the difference.
And yes, binary is |.
—SA

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Operator | between integer values will be treated as binary OR. That's it.
—SA

Posted 10-Sep-15 19:02pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Matt T Heffron · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-10T12:58:00

Solution 2

Nope, that shorthand doesn't exist in the language.
However, you can approximate it with Linq:

C#

if(new int[]{ rect.Left, rect.Top, rect.Bottom, rect.Right }.Any(v => v > 10))

This does cause the allocation of an array, so if you are going to do stuff like this a lot, then make a method for each type of operand.

Posted 10-Sep-15 12:58pm

Matt T Heffron

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Amt-Coder 10-Sep-15 19:13pm

This type of use is not short but acceptable. Thanks Matt.

Dave Kreskowiak 10-Sep-15 23:20pm

There is no other shortcut available to do this. Come to think of it, I don't know of a single language that allows this the way you want to implement it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Sep-15 1:01am

5ed.
—SA