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Ruby program to clear the specific bit using the bitwise operator

Ruby Example: Write a program to clear the specific bit using the bitwise operator.
Submitted by Nidhi, on December 03, 2021

Problem Solution:

In this program, we will create an integer variable and clear the specific bit of a given number using the bitwise operator.

Program/Source Code:

The source code to clear specific bit using the bitwise operator is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to clear the specific bit 
# using the bitwise operator

num=12

num = num & ~(1<<3)

print "Num: ",num

Output:

Num: 4

Explanation:

In the above program, we created an integer variable num initialized with 12. Then we clear the 3^rd bit of created variable using bitwise operators and print the result.

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