Pack and unpack are also great for bit twiddling. Takes me back to my c++ days and bit fields. I must say I prefer $bitsting&1<<$bit (where bit is the 0 based index of the bit to get, and is the log2 of the divisor to get a given bit, ie the 128's bit would be bit no. 7) to /% for getting bits out of the bit string/int. It seems much more natural, and considerablty less opaque, and you can define things like $MYFLAG = 1<<3 and test for it in the bit string like if($bits&$MYFLAG) or even if($bits&($MYFLAG|$MYFLAG2)) and all his boolean algebra buddies.

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In reply to Re: Boolean Encoding in Integers by Everlasting God
in thread Boolean Encoding in Integers by gregor42

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