C#, bits & bytes - How do I retrieve bit values from a byte?

Question

I\'m reading some values from a single byte. I\'m told in the user-manual that this one byte contains 3 different values. There\'s a table that looks like this:

Answer 1

You can do shifts and masks, or you can use the BitArray class: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.bitarray.aspx

Example with BitVector32:

BitVector32 bv = new BitVector32(0);

var size = BitVector32.CreateSection(7);
var scale = BitVector32.CreateSection(3, size);
var precision = BitVector32.CreateSection(7, scale);

bv[size] = 5;
bv[scale] = 2;
bv[precision] = 4;

LINQPad output: