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

• Convert long to a bitset
• Set the bit you need to
• Convert bitset back to long

See this post BitSet to and from integer/long for methods to convert long to bitset and vice versa