Brian H.

I have several bytes that have to split into various other word-lengths and then recombined-- The whole thing is a rather complex, patternless re-arranging of a 56-bit word. In other words, it has to be split into something like "bits 4-7 from byte 10, then bit 3, then bits 0-2 as the LSB of byte 11", etc. They aren't all consistent groups or nibbles of 4, so hex won't really help. At the moment, I'm using a lot 'tiered' [zl slice] and [zl ecils] to work my way through it. Should I considering another approach? I'm already using [bitlist] a lot.

Hi,
I have several bytes that have to split into various other word-lengths and then recombined-- The whole thing is a rather complex, patternless re-arranging of a 56-bit word.  In other words, it has to be split into something like "bits 4-7 from byte 10, then bit 3, then bits 0-2 as the LSB of byte 11", etc.  They aren't all consistent groups or nibbles of 4, so hex won't really help.  At the moment, I'm using a lot 'tiered' [zl slice] and [zl ecils] to work my way through it.  Should I considering another approach?  I'm already using [bitlist] a lot.

Word-splitting...