BITXOR(string1[,[string2][,pad]]) This function performs a bitwise-XOR on its two string arguments. If the string2 argument is omitted, an empty string is used for string2 instead. Before the operation, the shorter of the two string arguments is padded with the pad character. If no pad character is given, then '00'x is used, so that excess characters in the longer string remain unchanged after the operation. The result of the operation is the string of characters such that the nth character in the string is the bitwise-XOR of the nth character of string1 and the nth character of string2.