Newbie - Dont' understand << 8

[Bishop]

a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k +
3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. I understand
that the url[] part of (url[k + 1] << 8) returns part of the string but I
don't understand what the << 8 does.

[Alberto Poblacion]

"Bishop" <in**@tgscom.co mwrote in message
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>a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k
+ 3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. I understand
that the url[] part of (url[k + 1] << 8) returns part of the string but
I don't understand what the << 8 does.

It's a binary shift. x<<8 takes the bits of x and shifts them to the left
eight places, introducing zeroes on the right. For instance, 129<<8 would
return 33024. In binary, 129 is 10000001, and 33024 is 100000010000000 0.

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Alberto Poblacion skrev:

"Bishop" <in**@tgscom.co mwrote in message
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>a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) +
(url[k + 3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. I
understand that the url[] part of (url[k + 1] << 8) returns part of
the string but I don't understand what the << 8 does.

It's a binary shift. x<<8 takes the bits of x and shifts them to the
left eight places, introducing zeroes on the right. For instance, 129<<8
would return 33024. In binary, 129 is 10000001, and 33024 is
100000010000000 0.

In my opinion the statement above should use binary-or (|) instead of
plus (+).

a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] | (url[k + 1] << 8) | (url[k + 2] << 16) |
(url[k + 3] << 24));

I assume that the url[] array is unsigned bytes.

>

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Bjørn Brox

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

On Jul 7, 1:42*pm, "Bishop" <[e-mail] mwrote:

a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k +
3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. *I understand
that the url[] part of *(url[k + 1] << 8) *returns part of the stringbut I
don't understand what the << 8 does.

Hi,

What I do not understand is what he is doing, some kind of key
verification?

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Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP ) wrote:

On Jul 7, 1:42 pm, "Bishop" <[e-mail] mwrote:

>a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k +
3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. I understand
that the url[] part of (url[k + 1] << 8) returns part of the string but I
don't understand what the << 8 does.

What I do not understand is what he is doing, some kind of key
verification?

To me it looks more like a reimplementatio n of BitConverter.To Int32 !

Arne

[mdm]

On 7 Lug, 21:26, "Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )"
<ignacio.mac... @gmail.comwrote :

On Jul 7, 1:42*pm, "Bishop" <[e-mail] mwrote:

a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k +
3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. *I understand
that the url[] part of *(url[k + 1] << 8) *returns part of the string but I
don't understand what the << 8 does.

Hi,

What I do not understand is what he is doing, some kind of key
verification?

No, it's taking the 4 8-bit numbers of an ip and building the
corresponding 32 bit number.

M.

[Michel Walsh]

If you see a shift of n as a multiplication by 2^n, that is a way to write
in positional notation. As example, with base 10 instead of base 2, what is
proposed can be seen as:

firstDigit + secondDigit * 10 + thirdDigit * 100 + fourthDigit *
1000
except that here, the base is not 10, neither is it 2, but 256 (and x << 8
is like x * 256, assuming x is an integer which will not overflow when
multiplied by 256, as example).
Since the algorithm sum the result, it *may* be part of *some* check (like
someone defining his own-made CRC check), but in itself, it just 'rewrite'
four octets as one 'equivalent' 4-octets wide integer, and add the result
into a variable a.

Vanderghast, Access MVP

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ig************ @gmail.comwrote in
message
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On Jul 7, 1:42 pm, "Bishop" <[e-mail] mwrote:

a += (UInt32)(url[k + 0] + (url[k + 1] << 8) + (url[k + 2] << 16) + (url[k
+
3] << 24));

I'm trying to understand what the above line of code does. I understand
that the url[] part of (url[k + 1] << 8) returns part of the string but I
don't understand what the << 8 does.

Hi,

What I do not understand is what he is doing, some kind of key
verification?