Depending from who/where comes from this code, but a simple “&” is a mask function.
It’s is useful in case you want to mask a first var by a second like so :
"11001010" & "11110000" // Will return 11000000
I can’t explain you in some lines, so you can google it
But i guess this make no sense on alphabet, so your code is probably invalid.
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