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Asked: 2026-06-06T04:48:20+00:00

I have many flags that I want to store them in an integer, so

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I have many flags that I want to store them in an integer, so that later I can perform bitwise AND operation on them.
The number of these flags may be up to 1000. However, there are no types in C# that can store 1000 bits.

For Example, I want to perform (&) operation onü

100000010000000011100000000000000000000000000000...........00001 --> (1000 flags)
000000000000000001111110000000000000000000010101.......... 11111 --> (1000 flags)

So, how can I perform this (&) operation on a two bit collections?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have many flags that I want to store them in an integer, so that later I can perform bitwise AND operation on them.

    That’s a non-sequitur. You can use BitArray with its And method to satisfy that requirement without artificially going via a numeric type.

    If you haven’t logically got a number (and “many flags” doesn’t sound like a number to me) you shouldn’t go out of your way to use a numeric representation.

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