bittest()

Scalar. Returns the value of a specific bit in a binary value.

Syntax

bittest ( expression, bit )

expression	The initial value, as an integer or a long.
bit	Which bit to return. All other bits are set to zero.

A bit argument must be an integer. The function returns the same datatype as the datatype of the expression argument.

bittest (15, 3) returns 8, or in binary, bittest( 1111, 3) returns 1000. The user cannot directly specify binary.