Bitwise representation

Ints have 32 bits. We want to see which ones are turned on. We want to see the sign bit. A simple method can be used to display bits.

Some notes

The binary representation method here has some performance improvements and a simpler calling pattern. Meanwhile Convert.ToString with PadLeft is the shortest solution.

Example

Here we look a method that can display bits as zeros and ones from an integer. Every 32-bit integer can be converted into a text display of 32 zeros and ones with this method.

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // Write full binary string for 100.
        Console.WriteLine(GetIntBinaryString(100));

        // Write full binary string for 100000.
        Console.WriteLine(GetIntBinaryString(100000));
    }

    static string GetIntBinaryString(int n)
    {
        char[] b = new char[32];
        int pos = 31;
        int i = 0;

        while (i < 32)
        {
            if ((n & (1 << i)) != 0)
            {
                b[pos] = '1';
            }
            else
            {
                b[pos] = '0';
            }
            pos--;
            i++;
        }
        return new string(b);
    }
}
00000000000000000000000001100100
00000000000000011000011010100000

Convert, toBase

Consider this implementation of GetIntBinaryString. We use Convert.ToString and specify the toBase argument as 2. A binary representation is base 2.

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(GetIntBinaryString(100));
        Console.WriteLine(GetIntBinaryString(100000));
    }

    static string GetIntBinaryString(int value)
    {
        // Use Convert class and PadLeft.
        return Convert.ToString(value, 2).PadLeft(32, '0');
    }
}
00000000000000000000000001100100
00000000000000011000011010100000

TrimStart example

This method calls TrimStart. It provides output identical to the JavaScript tool. I haven't found this method as useful, because usually the trailing zeros are useful.

static string GetIntBinaryStringRemoveZeros(int n)
{
    char[] b = new char[32];
    int pos = 31;
    int i = 0;

    while (i < 32)
    {
        if ((n & (1 << i)) != 0)
        {
            b[pos] = '1';
        }
        else
        {
            b[pos] = '0';
        }
        pos--;
        i++;
    }
    return new string(b).TrimStart('0');
}

Summary

We displayed 1s and 0s from an integer, using the C# language. This sort of debugging code can solve hard problems when you are working on complicated structures.