ampersand C reference like operator in java. meaning?

Question

I encountered this piece of code

do {
    if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth) {
        w /= 2;
        if (w < targetWidth) {
            w = targetWidth;
        }
    }

    if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight) {
        h /= 2;
        if (h < targetHeight) {
            h = targetHeight;
        }
    } 
    BufferedImage tmp = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
    Graphics2D g2 = tmp.createGraphics();
    g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
    g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, null);
    g2.dispose();

    ret = tmp;
} while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);

I don't get the meaning of these if conditions

if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth)

and

if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight)

It resembles C's &variable reference operator to me. I am new to java but I know it doesn't support such thing and I was unable to google out any other meaning of ampersand in java aside from standard bitwise and logical AND. I would appreciate any explanation. Thank you.

Answer 1

& and > are HTML character references; it looks like the above code has simply been badly encoded on whatever website you found it on.

So for reference, this:

if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth)

should have been displayed as this:

if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth)

Answer 2

After decoding HTLM the code reads

if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight)

and then the && is Java's Conditional-AND operator.

Answer 3

Someone just double-HTML-encoded it by accident. They're actually just regular operators, and the code should look like this:

do {
    if (higherQuality && w > targetWidth) {
        w /= 2;
        if (w < targetWidth) {
            w = targetWidth;
        }
    }

    if (higherQuality && h > targetHeight) {
        h /= 2;
        if (h < targetHeight) {
            h = targetHeight;
        }
    }
    BufferedImage tmp = new BufferedImage(w, h, type);
    Graphics2D g2 = tmp.createGraphics();
    g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, hint);
    g2.drawImage(ret, 0, 0, w, h, null);
    g2.dispose();

    ret = tmp;
} while (w != targetWidth || h != targetHeight);