Thread: setting the values of bits

say I have two chars and I want to mix up some of the bits in the chars. How exactly do I do this?

For example if I had:

Code:

1110 0101
0011 1101

and I wanted to switch the first bits of the chars to get:

Code:

0110 0101
1011 1101

How would I code that?

I know there is something that I'm forgetting and when someone tells me I'll kick myself, but right now I think I'm making this way harder than it is. Thank you.