reading a bitmap of 64bits ...pls help..
hello friends,
good day to all of u..
i am having a problem. i am writing an application in java which reads
records from a text file and posts then in oracle database.
but the problem is to find out what no. of fields are present in the
record i have to read a bitmap of 64 bits. and from that bitmap ,
the presence of 1 will tell me the presence of that no. of field.
can u pls help me how can i read the bitmap.
suppose i have a charcter of 8 bits + 8 bits then how can i make out
on what positions are the 1s and 0s present ????
urgent help needed....
thank u...
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