&& Operator (C# Reference)
The conditional-AND operator (&&) performs a logical-AND of its bool operands, but only evaluates its second operand if necessary.
Remarks
The operation
x && y
corresponds to the operation
x & y
except that if x is false, y is not evaluated (because the result of the AND operation is false no matter what the value of y may be). This is known as "short-circuit" evaluation.
The conditional-AND operator cannot be overloaded, but overloads of the regular logical operators and operators true and false are, with certain restrictions, also considered overloads of the conditional logical operators.
Example
In the following example, observe that the expression using && evaluates only the first operand.
// cs_operator_logical_and.cs
using System;
class MainClass
{
static bool Method1()
{
Console.WriteLine("Method1 called");
return false;
}
static bool Method2()
{
Console.WriteLine("Method2 called");
return true;
}
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("regular AND:");
Console.WriteLine("result is {0}", Method1() & Method2());
Console.WriteLine("short-circuit AND:");
Console.WriteLine("result is {0}", Method1() && Method2());
}
}
Output
regular AND: Method1 called Method2 called result is False short-circuit AND: Method1 called result is False
C# Language Specification
For more information, see the following sections in the C# Language Specification:
- 7.11.2 User-defined conditional logical operators