[RESOLVED] XOR ^ operator not compiling...

[Phill64]

Hi all,

this tiny little problem is frustrating the hell out of me. I've done this sort of operation many times in VB.NET with XOR without a problem, I believe the ^ operator in C# is XOR so I can't see why this is a problem(except that ^ is also considered a logical operator), but check it out. I simply want to XOR 2 bytes, and the compiler tells me that I cannot convert byte to int and that im missing a cast... how is this possible when i'm dealing only with bytes and the result of a XOR'd byte should be a byte.

code snippet

for(int i=0;i<bts.Length; i++)
  bts[i] = bts[i] ^ bts2[i];

compiler error

Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'byte'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) (CS0266) - .cs:80,14

which points to the "= bts[i]" part