vb.net: managing bit and bytes

[Federico Caselli]

Hi,
I need to set the value of 8 bit variables separately and then put them into
a byte variable.

Is it possible using VB.NET. How?

Thank you very much.

[Patrice]

Try "or" :

MsgBox(Hex$(1 Or 2 or 4 Or 8))

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Hi,
I need to set the value of 8 bit variables separately and then put them into a byte variable.

Is it possible using VB.NET. How?

Thank you very much.

[Patrice]

You'll need to "shift" them. AFAIK the fist operator is not currently
available (I believe this will show up in VB 2005).

Meanwhile and unless you need to do that a fair amount of time you could do
:

allBits=bit1+bit2*2+bit3*4+bit4*8 etc...

Another option would be to see if the BitArray class could help :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...mberstopic.asp
(never usde it but rmember to have seen it)

Patrice
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"Federico Caselli" <Fe*************@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans
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Thank you for answering, but I'd need to set boolean values of bits
separately, something like:

bit1 = 1
bit2 = 0
bit3 = 1
...
bit8 = 0

and then put them into a unique byte variabile in the right order.

Thank you