Re: Masking using Hexadecimal Values

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Maynard Wright 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: help
> Date: 2016/8/4, Thu 08:22
> Subject: Re: Masking using Hexadecimal Values
> 
> On Wednesday, August 03, 2016 01:16:16 PM Chip Wachob wrote:
>>  Hello,
>> 
>>  I'm new to Octave, but I am trying to do some work where I need to mask 
> off
>>  bits of a value.
>> 
>>  I've tried using bitand() but that only seems to return a binary value.
>>  The function seems to return either a 1 or 0 but what I am looking for is a
>>  function / command that will return the bit-wise and of two numbers.
>> 
>>  Eg:
>> 
>>  bitand (0x55AA, 0xF0F0) is currently producing a 0
>> 
>>  What command/function/code is required to have the statement yield 0x50A0?
>> 
>>  Thank you in advance for your time,
> 
> 
> bitand(0x55AA, 0xF0F0) returns 20640 (hex 50A0) on my Octave implementation.  
> I'm running Octave 3.8.1 under Kubuntu 14.04.
> 
> Maynard Wright
> 


I have tried octave 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4.0, and dev. version of octave on 
windows.

For all version,
>> bitand (0x55AA, 0xF0F0)
ans =  20640
 (hex 50A0)


Perhaps something is wrong with your octave.
Please specify

1. Version number of octave
2. Platform  (e.g. Ubuntu 14.04)
3. The way to install octave

Tatsuro