obtaining which combination of flags are being set

I'm asking this question in order to clarify on how to process the flags. For example, if

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FLONG flagSet = FO_DBCS_FONT | FO_GRAY16 // I'm trying to illustrate that both these flags are set

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in order to process flagSet to see which flags are set, would this approach be the standard one to go about it:

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// determine whether FO_DBCS_FONT is set
if( flagSet & FO_DBCS_FONT)
{
// process some code here
}

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I may be completely thinking in the wrong tangent. Basically I'm trying to AND the two flags logically and see if I get non-zeros to determine whether a particular flag is set. Would this work in C++?

You line of thinking is correct.
| to combine flags.
& to test a flag.
& ~() to remove a flag.

Thanks for the confirmation Elysia. Just one more question: in what situation would the developer want to remove a particular flag? and can you show me an example of how one would remove a flag?

int x = myflag1 | myflag2;
x &= ~(myflag1);

This removes flag 1.
As for why... hmm, well, there are always those opportunities when you might want to.
Say you might want to strip out flags depending on some other flag.
Or you add a certain number of flags as default and in certain circumstances you want to remove a flag.

There are plenty of reasons why you may want to remove a flag - a typical case would be that you have a flag to indicate if something is in progress or finished. If the flag is called "INPROGRESS", when we finish, we'd do something like this:

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void finish(sometype *p)
{
    p->flags &= ~INPROGRESS;
}

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Other examples of "clearing" bits - whether they are flags or otherwise, would be when programming hardware registers, where you may want to change only certain bits in a hardware register.

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Mats