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

1. Potayto, potahto.

2. You'd use shifts and masks to flatten out the undesired bits, like such:

   byte b = something; // b is our byte
   
   int size = b & 0x7;
   int scale = (b >> 3) & 0x3;
   int position = (b >> 5) & 0x7;