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Bit Operations and Bit Comparisons in Release 4.0

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

New variants SET BIT and GET BIT

SET BIT n of f sets the nth bit of field f.
GET BIT n OF f INTO g puts the nth bit of field f in field g.

,,New bit operations BIT-NOT, BIT-AND, BIT-XOR and BIT-OR

In the COMPUTE statement, the new operators BIT-NOT, BIT-AND, BIT-XOR and BIT-OR can be used for bit operations.

SET BITGET BITnew bit operations

Changes in Bit Comparisons

The comparison is now performed in the second operand for the compare operators O, Z and M, where the operand must be of type X.
Up to Release 3.0 the comparison was performed in length 1 and the second field was considerd to be a X field, regardless of its type and length.