Re: What does >>> mean?

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When rotated 90% counterclockwise I believe it is the sign for "Hello" 
in New Jersey (happens to me all the time when I am driving there).

Otherwise, in the context you are showing it, it represents "shift" for 
bitwise operations (I think).

Pete


albartell wrote:
> Heyo,
>  
> I have the following code from the IBM Info Center that is from a Java
> program creating a keyed data queue.  I thought the >>> characters were
> typos, which I frequently find in the IBM examples, but it is not! - this
> code compiles.  So I am curious as to what >>> means as google didn't seem
> to like that as a search term (i.e. "java >>>").  Anybody?
>  
>         byte[] key0 = new byte[4];
>         key0[0] = 0;
>         key0[1] = 0;
>         key0[2] = 0;
>         key0[3] = 0;
>  
>         byte[] key50 = new byte[4];
>         key50[0] = (byte) (50 >>> 24);
>         key50[1] = (byte) (50 >>> 16);
>         key50[2] = (byte) (50 >>> 8);
>         key50[3] = (byte) (50);
>  
>         byte[] key100 = new byte[4];
>         key100[0] = (byte) (100 >>> 24);
>         key100[1] = (byte) (100 >>> 16);
>         key100[2] = (byte) (100 >>> 8);
>         key100[3] = (byte) (100);
>  
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