Difference between | and || or & and && for comparison [duplicate]

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A clear, layman’s explanation of the difference between | and || in c# ?

What is the difference between comparing with | and || or & and && in C# and Javascript?

Examples:

if(test == test1 | test1 == test2) or if(test == test1 || test1 == test2)
if(test == test1 & test1 == test2) or if(test == test1 && test1 == test2)

Answer 1

in C (and other languages probably) a single | or & is a bitwise comparison.
The double || or && is a logical comparison.
Edit: Be sure to read Mehrdad's comment below regarding "without short-circuiting"

In practice, since true is often equivalent to 1 and false is often equivalent to 0, the bitwise comparisons can sometimes be valid and return exactly the same result.

There was once a mission critical software component I ran a static code analyzer on and it pointed out that a bitwise comparison was being used where a logical comparison should have been. Since it was written in C and due to the arrangement of logical comparisons, the software worked just fine with either. Example:

if ( (altitide > 10000) & (knots > 100) )
...

Answer 2

& and | are bitwise operators that can operate on both integer and Boolean arguments, and && and || are logical operators that can operate only on Boolean arguments. In many languages, if both arguments are Boolean, the key difference is that the logical operators will perform short circuit evaluation and not evaluate the second argument if the first argument is enough to determine the answer (e.g. in the case of &&, if the first argument is false, the second argument is irrelevant).

Answer 3

& and | are binary operators while || and && are boolean.

The big difference:
(1 & 2) is 0, false
(1 && 2) is true