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You can use the AND and OR operators to check or flip bits.<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;Dim Flags As Long<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;Flags = &amp;H1A&amp;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;Flags = Flags AND &amp;HF&amp; &nbsp;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;MsgBox Hex(Flags) '&lt;-- Displays ' A '<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;Flags = Flags OR 1<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp;MsgBox Hex(Flags) '&lt;-- Displays ' B '<br />

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You can use the AND and OR operators to check or flip bits.

For example:

   Dim Flags As Long

   Flags = &H1A&
   Flags = Flags AND &HF&  
   MsgBox Hex(Flags) '<-- Displays ' A '

   Flags = Flags OR 1
   MsgBox Hex(Flags) '<-- Displays ' B '


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There are not any shift operators, but when you shift the bits one position to the left, you are really multiplying by 2. When you shift right, you are dividing by 2.<br />
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There are not any shift operators, but when you shift the bits one position to the left, you are really multiplying by 2. When you shift right, you are dividing by 2.



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THe VB operators AND and OR are the LOGICAL equivalents of the C++ operators &amp;&amp;&nbsp;and ||<br />
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THe VB operators AND and OR are the LOGICAL equivalents of the C++ operators && and ||




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&gt;THe VB operators AND and OR are the LOGICAL equivalents of the C++ operators &amp;&amp;&nbsp;and ||<br />
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Actually they're always bit-wise in VB, so they're equivalent to &amp;&nbsp;and |. True is -1, so all bits are set. All numbers are signed in VB.<br />
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You've also got Xor, and Not (of course), but unfortunately there isn't a shift or rotate.
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>THe VB operators AND and OR are the LOGICAL equivalents of the C++ operators && and ||

Actually they're always bit-wise in VB, so they're equivalent to & and |. True is -1, so all bits are set. All numbers are signed in VB.

You've also got Xor, and Not (of course), but unfortunately there isn't a shift or rotate.

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I am a C++ programmer now learning VB. &nbsp;Is it possible to do bit manipulation in VB? &nbsp;I need to call functions in the Win32 API, as well as from my own dll's, that return values that require bit manipulation.
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I am a C++ programmer now learning VB.  Is it possible to do bit manipulation in VB?  I need to call functions in the Win32 API, as well as from my own dll's, that return values that require bit manipulation.

Bit manipulation in VB

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.