Bit stuck.
I'm trying to work out how to get the bitmask values from a const with go enumeration. For example, if key is 5, which is 0101 bits, it would be dog and fish. What is the easiest way to get the bit values (1,2,4,8,16, 32, 64 etc) so I can select the string values and return the set of animals?
type Key int
const (
Dog Key = 1 << iota
Cat
Fish
Horse
Snake
Rabbit
Lion
Rino
Hedgehog
)
Been reading but I can't work this out.
Declare a slice of strings where the strings correspond to the constant names:
var animalNames = []string{
"Dog",
"Cat",
"Fish",
"Horse",
"Snake",
"Rabbit",
"Lion",
"Rino",
"Hedgehog",
}
To get the names for the bits, loop through the names. If the corresponding bit is set, add the name to the result:
func Names(k Key) []string {
var result []string
for i := 0; i < len(animalNames); i++ {
if k&(1<<uint(i)) != 0 {
result = append(result, animalNames[i])
}
}
return result
}
If you change the the constants to be bit indexes instead of bit values, then you can use the stringer utility to create a func (k Key) String() string
. Here's the code for this change:
type Key uint
const (
Dog Key = iota
Cat
Fish
Horse
Snake
Rabbit
Lion
Rino
Hedgehog
)
//go:generate stringer -type=Key
func Names(k Key) []string {
var result []string
for animal := Dog; animal <= Hedgehog; animal++ {
if k&(1<<animal) != 0 {
result = append(result, animal.String())
}
}
return result
}