From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: John Ackermann N8UR <jra@febo.com>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Perl question
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:46:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030315224604.GA18830@silly.cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28850000.1047756287@[192.168.1.1]>
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 02:24:47PM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> I need to:
>
> (a) test whether one bit of a byte is set or not (e..g, is bit 5 of $myvar
> a 1 or a 0);
>
> and
>
> (b) do a binary AND of two bytes (in other words, apply a bitmask).
Binary AND is the "&" operator as in C. So
$c = $a & $b;
$y = $x & 0xFF;
etc achieves (b), and similarly for (a),
if ($myvar & 0x20) {
....
}
or perhaps more readably:
if ($myvar & (1 << 5)) {
....
}
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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2003-03-15 19:24 Slightly OT: Perl question John Ackermann N8UR
2003-03-15 22:46 ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2003-03-15 22:54 ` John Ackermann N8UR
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