shiftRight

Purpose

Bit shift right operator >>

Description

Shift all of the bits in a binary number to the right the specified number of times. The new leftmost bits are set to zero

Syntax

result = number1 >> number2

Arguments

number1 first binary number

number2 number of bits to shift

result resulting number with the bits of number1 shifted right number2 times

Example

loop
    textsize( 50 )
    byte1 = 123
    byte2 = 234
    printAt( 0, 0, "byte1 =         ", bin2str( byte1 ) )
    printAt( 0, 1, "byte2 =         ", bin2str( byte2 ) )
    printAt( 0, 2, "byte1 >> 1 =    ", bin2str( byte1 >> 1 ) )
    update()
repeat

function bin2str( byte )
    result = ""
    for i = 0 to 8 loop
        bit = byte & 1
        if bit then
            result = "1" + result
        else
            result = "0" + result 
        endIf
        byte = byte >> 1
    repeat
return result

Associated Commands