Erlang - Logical Operators

Following are the logical operators available in Erlang.

Operator	Description	Example
or	This is the logical “and” operator	true or true will give true
and	This is the logical “or” operator	True and false will give false
not	This is the logical “not” operator	not false will give true
xor	This is the logical exclusive “xor” operator	True xor false will give true

The following code snippet shows how the various operators can be used.

Example

Live Demo

-module(helloworld). 
-export([start/0]). 

start() -> 
   io:fwrite("~w~n",[true or false]),  
   io:fwrite("~w~n",[true and false]), 
   io:fwrite("~w~n",[true xor false]), 
   io:fwrite("~w~n",[not false]).

The output of the above program will be −

Output

true
false
true
true

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