Re: SQR and Bit Manipulation

[Bill Beckner <Bbeckner@ICC.CC.IL.US>]

If the flag fields are numeric, you could do this (assuming flag1=bit0):

let #byte = #flag1 + (#flag2 * 2) + (#flag3 * 4) + (#flag4 * 8) + (#flag5 *
16) + (#flag6 * 32) + (#flag7 * 64) + (#flag8 * 128)

let $byte = chr(#byte)

Good luck!

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                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dave Thorburn [mailto:thorburn@CONL.NET]
                Sent:   Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:37 AM
                To:     SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
                Subject:        SQR and Bit Manipulation

                I have a client department that insists on receiving
information
                represented as bits within a one-byte field.

                The values of eight one-byte flags are:

                flag         Value
                ------------------------
                flag1        0
                flag2        0
                flag3        0
                flag4        0 or 1
                flag5        0 or 1
                flag6        0 or 1
                flag7        0 or 1
                flag8        0 or 1

                How do I get these values into a one-byte numeric field
                as bits 0 - 7 (eight bit byte) ???
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