Operator Shl Shift Left

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Operator Shl (Shift Left)

Shifts the bits of a numeric expression to the left

Syntax

Declare Operator Shl ( ByRef lhs As Integer, ByRef rhs As Integer ) As Integer
Declare Operator Shl ( ByRef lhs As UInteger, ByRef rhs As UInteger ) As UInteger
Declare Operator Shl ( ByRef lhs As LongInt, ByRef rhs As LongInt ) As LongInt
Declare Operator Shl ( ByRef lhs As ULongInt, ByRef rhs As ULongInt ) As ULongInt

Parameters

• lhs
• rhs

Description

Operator Shl (Shift left) shifts all of the bits in the left-hand side expression (lhs) left a number of times specified by the right-hand side expression (rhs). Numerically, the result is the same as "CInt( lhs * 2 ^ rhs )". For example, "&b0101 Shl 1" returns the binary number &b01010, and "5 Shl 1" returns 10.

Neither of the operands are modified in any way.

If the result is too large to fit inside the result's data type, the leftmost bits are discarded ("shifted out").
The results of this operation are undefined for values of rhs less than zero, or greater than or equal to the number of bits in the result's data type.

This operator can be overloaded for user-defined types.

Return Value

Returns the result of lhs being shifted left rhs number of times.

Remarks

Usage

result = lhs Shl rhs

Dialect Differences

• Not available in the -lang qb dialect unless referenced with the alias __Shl.

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

• Operator Shl= (Shift Left And Assign)
• Operator Shr (Shift Right)
• Bin
• Mathematical Functions

Examples

'Double a number

For i As Integer = 0 To 10

    Print 5 Shl i, Bin(5 Shl i, 16)

Next i

Output:

 5            0000000000000101
 10           0000000000001010
 20           0000000000010100
 40           0000000000101000
 80           0000000001010000
 160          0000000010100000
 320          0000000101000000
 640          0000001010000000
 1280         0000010100000000
 2560         0000101000000000
 5120         0001010000000000

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Category: Operators
Kind: operator

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