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Ruby program to set the specific bit using the bitwise operator

Ruby Example: Write a program to set 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 set the specific bit of a given number using a bitwise operator.

Program/Source Code:

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

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

num=5

num = num | (1<<3)

print "Num: ",num

Output:

Num: 13

Explanation:

In the above program, we created an integer variable num initialized with 5. Then we set the 3^rd bit of created variable using bitwise operators and printed the result.

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