Left shift operator : Bitwise Operator « Operator « C Tutorial

5.7.6.Left shift operator

# include<stdio.h>



main()

{

  char c1 = 1,c2 = 2,c3 = 3;



  c3 = c1<<2;

  printf("\n left shift by 2 bits c1 << 2 = %c",c3);

}

c3 = c1 << 2;

The bits are shifted left by two places.

c1 is 0000 0100

It is shifted 2 bits to the left

0001 00**

While shifting, the high-order (left) bits are discarded. The vacuum on the right side is filled with 0s.

5.7.Bitwise Operator
	5.7.1.	Bitwise operator
	5.7.2.	Bitwise and: c1 & c2
	5.7.3.	Bitwise or: c1 \| c2
	5.7.4.	Bitwise XOR: c1 ^ c2
	5.7.5.	Complement: ~
	5.7.6.	Left shift operator
	5.7.7.	Right shift operation
	5.7.8.	A special feature of the >> and <<: perform superfast binary division and multiplication.
	5.7.9.	To divide value by 4

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