Objective:

To extract a range of bits from a binary data source

Status

Experimental

Documentation

This crate is published at crates.io. The detailed documentation is available at docs.rs/bitlab

Version

0.5.0

Usage

1. In your Cargo.toml file, add bitlab = "0.5" under [dependencies]
2. In your source file, add extern crate bitlab and use bitlab::*;

Example 1:

Start at bit offset 1, extract 3 bits and interpret the result as u8

use bitlab::*;
let a: i8 = -33; // = 0b1101_1111;
let b = a.get_u8(1, 3).unwrap();  // 1 --> 101 <-- 1111
//                                         = 5
assert_eq!(b, 5);

Example 2:

use bitlab::*;
let a: u8 = 0b0000_0101;

// Get the most significant bit. It has the bit offset 0
assert_eq!(a.get_bit(0).unwrap(), false);

// Set the most significant bit. Expect 0b1000_0101
assert_eq!(a.set_bit(0).unwrap(), 133);

// Clear the most significant bit. Expect 0b0000_0101
assert_eq!(a.clear_bit(0).unwrap(), 5);

Example 3:

The data source is a vector of u8 types. We want to go to byte offset 1, bit offset 7 and starting from there extract 3 bits as an u16

use bitlab::*;
let v: Vec<u8> = vec!{ 0x48, 0x61, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x6F }; // = "Hallo"
let bar = v.get_u16(1, 7, 3); // relevant bytes = 0x616C = 0b0110_000  --> 1_01 <-- 10_1100
//                                                                         = 5
assert_eq!(bar.unwrap(), 5);

Example 4:

There is a very simple application in the examples directory, which extracts the color resolution from a real gif file. To run it enter the folloeing in the command line

cargo run --release --example gif