How to set/unset a bit at specific position of a long?

Question

How to set/unset a bit at specific position of a long in Java ?

For example,

long l = 0b001100L ; // bit representation

I want to s

Answer 1

I would choose BigInteger for this...

class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Long value = 12L;
        BigInteger b = new BigInteger(String.valueOf(value));
        System.out.println(b.toString(2) + " " + value);
        b = b.setBit(1);
        b = b.clearBit(2);
        value = Long.valueOf(b.toString());
        System.out.println(b.toString(2) + " " + value);
    }
}

and here is the output:

1100 12
1010 10