Java: Checking if a bit is 0 or 1 in a long

Question

What method would you use to determine if the the bit that represents 2^x is a 1 or 0 ?

Answer 1

If someone is not very comfortable with bitwise operators, then below code can be tried to programatically decide it. There are two ways.

1) Use java language functionality to get the binary format string and then check character at specific position

2) Keep dividing by 2 and decide the bit value at certain position.

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Integer n =1000;
    String binaryFormat =  Integer.toString(n, 2);
    int binaryFormatLength = binaryFormat.length();
    System.out.println("binaryFormat="+binaryFormat);
    for(int i = 1;i<10;i++){
        System.out.println("isBitSet("+n+","+i+")"+isBitSet(n,i));
        System.out.println((binaryFormatLength>=i && binaryFormat.charAt(binaryFormatLength-i)=='1'));
    }

}

public static boolean isBitSet(int number, int position){
    int currPos =1;
    int temp = number;
    while(number!=0 && currPos<= position){
        if(temp%2 == 1 && currPos == position)
            return true;
        else{
            temp = temp/2;
            currPos ++;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Output

binaryFormat=1111101000
isBitSet(1000,1)false
false
isBitSet(1000,2)false
false
isBitSet(1000,3)false
false
isBitSet(1000,4)true
true
isBitSet(1000,5)false
false
isBitSet(1000,6)true
true
isBitSet(1000,7)true
true
isBitSet(1000,8)true
true
isBitSet(1000,9)true
true