How to extract specific bits from a number in C?

Question

I need to extract specific part (no of bits) of a short data type in C.

For Example I have a binary of 52504 as 11001101000 11000 and I want First 6 (

Answer 1

unsigned short extract(unsigned short value, int begin, int end)
{
    unsigned short mask = (1 << (end - begin)) - 1;
    return (value >> begin) & mask;
}

Note that [begin, end) is a half open interval.