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

Please see the class java.util.BitSet that do the job for you.

To set : myByte.set(bit); To reset : myByte.clear(bit); To fill with a bool : myByte.set(bit, b); To get the bool : b = myByte.get(bit);