Re: Two-byte char to bit array - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: Two-byte char to bit array
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:31:36 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3224269905160580@naggum.net>

* kyongho.min@aut.ac.nz (Kyongho Min)
| Can anyone help me change two-byte char into a bit array.
| Otherwise how can I change a char #\A into a bit array.
| I'd like to do some bit operation such as "shift 3 bits left".

  Can you do that on a bit array?  I have always missed the ability to do
  such useful things on bit arrays.

  You could probably work with the code-value of the character.
  char-code produces an integer that should be amenable to bit-shifting.

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