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orjanp

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From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 347

C: Printing bits.

If I have an integer with the value, lets say 2. How can I print the bit representation to screen?

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Ørjan Pettersen

tranquility

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2004-08-06

Posts: 136

Re: C: Printing bits.

The only way I know of is going bit by bit and applying a bit mask that shows the value of that bit, like your_integer & bit_mask_for_bit_X.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: C: Printing bits.

edit: ok wtf it won't let me print it

basically have a for loop uptil 32 printing out your number shifted right each iterationg, num >> i, where i = 0 .. 31

drakosha

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Registered: 2006-01-03

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Re: C: Printing bits.

you can print it as hex or octal - and from there conversion to bits is easy

orjanp

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From: Tromsoe, Norway

Registered: 2004-07-03

Posts: 347

Re: C: Printing bits.

This gave me a itoa function. Works like a charm.

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Ørjan Pettersen