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 this via bitwise arithmetic:

uint precision = (thatByte & 0xe0) >> 5,
    scale = (thatByte & 0x18) >> 3,
    size = thatByte & 7;