Checking setting clearing and toggling individual bits. Using long as bit mask

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Assuming we want to modify bit n of an integer primitive, i (byte, short, char, int, or long):

(i & 1 << n) != 0 // checks bit 'n'
i |= 1 << n;      // sets bit 'n' to 1
i &= ~(1 << n);   // sets bit 'n' to 0
i ^= 1 << n;      // toggles the value of bit 'n'

Using long/int/short/byte as a bit mask:

public class BitMaskExample {
    private static final long FIRST_BIT = 1L << 0;
    private static final long SECOND_BIT = 1L << 1;
    private static final long THIRD_BIT = 1L << 2;
    private static final long FOURTH_BIT = 1L << 3;
    private static final long FIFTH_BIT = 1L << 4;
    private static final long BIT_55 = 1L << 54;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        checkBitMask(FIRST_BIT | THIRD_BIT | FIFTH_BIT | BIT_55);
    }

    private static void checkBitMask(long bitmask) {
        System.out.println("FIRST_BIT: " + ((bitmask & FIRST_BIT) != 0));
        System.out.println("SECOND_BIT: " + ((bitmask & SECOND_BIT) != 0));
        System.out.println("THIRD_BIT: " + ((bitmask & THIRD_BIT) != 0));
        System.out.println("FOURTh_BIT: " + ((bitmask & FOURTH_BIT) != 0));
        System.out.println("FIFTH_BIT: " + ((bitmask & FIFTH_BIT) != 0));
        System.out.println("BIT_55: " + ((bitmask & BIT_55) != 0));
    }
}

Prints

FIRST_BIT: true
SECOND_BIT: false
THIRD_BIT: true
FOURTh_BIT: false
FIFTH_BIT: true
BIT_55: true

which matches that mask we passed as checkBitMask parameter: FIRST_BIT | THIRD_BIT | FIFTH_BIT | BIT_55.

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