If this is to be done repeatedly, I'd go with a lookup table. The table could be built dynamically (e.g. by using the code from the other answers in a loop), but it's probably not worth the effort. 

my @mask_by_offset = (
    ( ~0x0000_000F ) x 4,
    ( ~0x0000_00FF ) x 4,
    ( ~0x0000_0FFF ) x 4,
    ( ~0x0000_FFFF ) x 4,
    ( ~0x000F_FFFF ) x 4,
    ( ~0x00FF_FFFF ) x 4,
    ( ~0x0FFF_FFFF ) x 4,
    ( ~0xFFFF_FFFF ) x 4,
);

$val &= $mask_by_offset[$offset];

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The mask are defined in terms of the bits to keep to work with 32-bit ints and 64-bit ints.

In reply to Re: Making all nibble zero lower than the offset by ikegami
in thread Making all nibble zero lower than the offset by spriyada29

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