On 02 Sep 2009, at 20:16, Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) wrote:

Does anyone know how to return the lest significant byte of a given number? e.g. functionleast_significant_byteof (num: integer): byte;

An algorithm in Pascal or C would be fine.

least_significant_byteof:=num and 255;

(works both on big and little endian systems)

Jonas

PROGRAM LSB;

function least_significant_byteof (num: integer): byte; BEGIN least_significant_byteof := num AND $FF; END; { least_significant_byteof }

BEGIN WriteLn(least_significant_byteof($1FF)); END.

Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) schrieb:

Hi all

Does anyone know how to return the lest significant byte of a given number? e.g. function least_significant_byteof (num: integer): byte;

An algorithm in Pascal or C would be fine.

Thanks,