Free Pascal - Logical negation: not

The logical negation operator is used to determine the oposite value. in our case: if input is true then output is false, and if input is false the result is true. In next table you can find all possibilities:

a	x
False	True
True	False

information about the table: a is input, x is result

not

Description

not par1

Used keywords: not

Input

par1 - Logical value

Output

Result - Logical value

Examples

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In the source code you can find the equivalent of the above table, for easier orientation at the end of each line is a comment which shows the result.

a1 := not false; // a1 = true
a2 := not true; // a2 = false

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Even one example in what situations we can use the operation logical negation:

not a
not b and true
not(10 >a or a<5)

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Other pieces of example codes:

repeat
  inc(i);
  if i=5 then
    break;
until not i <10;

not a

repeat dec(i) until not i > 0;

You can find it in the following collections: logical operators

Logical negation in another programming language:

Differences to: