boolean - Scilab Objects, boolean variables and operators & | ~

Description

A boolean variable is %T (for "true") or %F (for "false"). These variables can be used to define matrices of booleans, with the usual syntax. Boolean matrices can be manipulated as ordinary matrices for elements extraction/insertion and concatenation. Note that other usual operations (+, *, -, ^, etc) are undefined for booleans matrices, three special operators are defined for boolean matrices:

~b : is the element wise negation of boolean b (matrix).

b1&b2 : is the element wise logical and of b1 and b2 (matrices).

b1|b2 : is the element wise logical or of b1 and b2 (matrices).

Boolean variables can be used for indexing matrices or vectors. For instance a([%T,%F,%T],:) returns the submatrix made of rows 1 and 3 of a. Boolean sparse matrices are supported.

Examples

[1,2]==[1,3]
[1,2]==1
a=1:5; a(a>2)
 

See Also

matrices  or  and  not