https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/tags/bit-shifting/Recent content in Bit Shifting on Remko's BlogHugoen-usThu, 10 May 2012 12:14:36 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2012/05/10/bit-shifting-in-powershell/Thu, 10 May 2012 12:14:36 +0000https://remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2012/05/10/bit-shifting-in-powershell/<p><img style="display: inline; float: right" align="right" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Rotate_left_logically.svg/210px-Rotate_left_logically.svg.png" width="129" height="86" />I needed to dome some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#Logical_shift">Bit Shifting</a> in PowerShell but unfortunately PowerShell lacks operator for Bit Shifting. I searched the .NET Framework for anything that allows for bit shifting but was unable to find anything suitable.</p> <p>I didn't want to revert to C# so I implemented shift left and shift right functions in PowerShell.</p> <p>The code isn't really pretty and could probably be improved (comments/improvements are welcome!) but here goes (please note that I implemented for bit shifting a byte):</p>