Question

Is there an or operator in C#?

I want to do:

if (ActionsLogWriter.Close or ErrorDumpWriter.Close == true)
{
    // Do stuff here
}

But I’m not sure how I could do something like that.

Answer 1

C# supports two boolean or operators: the single bar | and the double-bar ||.

The difference is that | always checks both the left and right conditions, while || only checks the right-side condition if it’s necessary (if the left side evaluates to false).

This is significant when the condition on the right-side involves processing or results in side effects. (For example, if your ErrorDumpWriter.Close method took a while to complete or changed something’s state.)