Monday, May 14, 2012

Some questions about bitwise operators


I read about bitwise operators today and they seem rather handy to me. I also noticed Apple uses them too, for example with UIViewAutoresizing .



In my app I need to keep track of the seven days of the week. Each day can be either enabled or disabled. I used to have seven BOOL 's, but now I'm trying to use a single integer for this:




enum {
DaysMonday = 1 << 0,
DaysTuesday = 1 << 1,
DaysWednesday = 1 << 2,
DaysThursday = 1 << 3,
DaysFriday = 1 << 4,
DaysSaturday = 1 << 5,
DaysSunday = 1 << 6
};
typedef NSUInteger Days;



My question is, how can I enable/disable those values now? I know I can check a variable days for a specific day like this:




if (days & DaysThursday) {
// thursday enabled
}



But how do I..



  1. enable thursday?

  2. disable thursday?

  3. toggle thursday?

  4. enable all?

  5. disable all?



Thank you.


Source: Tips4all

2 comments:

  1. I'm not too familiar with objective-c, but here are the basics when dealing with bitwise operators.

    Enable Thursday

    days = days | DaysThursday;


    Disable Thursday

    allDays = DaysMonday | DaysTuesday | ... | DaysSunday;
    days = days & (allDays ^ DaysThursday);
    // OR
    days = days & ~DaysThursday;


    Toggle Thursday

    days = days ^ DaysThursday;


    Enable All

    allDays = DaysMonday | DaysTuesday | ... | DaysSunday;
    days = days | allDays;
    // OR
    days = allDays;


    Disable All

    days = days ^ days;
    // OR
    days = 0;

    ReplyDelete
  2. days = DaysMonday | DaysWednesday | DaysFriday | DaysSaturday;
    days = days | DaysThursday;
    days = days & ~DaysSaturday;

    ReplyDelete