Bitwise shifts not implemented in LO Basic?

[skagon]

This is the second question I’ve got here; in short, trying to transfer a code segment from C++ to LibreOffice Basic, and some functions and features seem to be not implemented.

For this particular question: while there are bitwise shift functions for Calc (BITLSHIFT, BITRSHIFT), there’s no such function or operand in LO Basic.

Obviously, what I mean are the C/C++ operators << and >> as in:

a = b << c;     //left shift
d = e >> f;     //right shift

Could someone please let me know if I’ve overlooked something, or if it’s indeed missing? Also, since I’m rather new here, is there any place I can file a “bug” report so that it’s considered for future implementation?
Thanks!

[mark_t]

Bugs and enhancement requests should be made at LIbreOffice Bugzilla. Please search first to avoid creating duplicates.

On page 72 In the book OOME from Andrew Pitonyak’s site, is mentioned a workaround for shift by checking the sign and using divide by 2.

You could also call the worksheet functions from basic, see page 525 chapter 15.10 in the book.

[skagon]

Great help that book you linked, thanks a lot!
I have written my own left/right signed/unsigned shift functions, having no other alternative, for now. I’d make my own DLL with functions too, but I don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
Still living in hope that the powers that be add this functionality in the future.
Thanks a lot for the answer!

[stragu]

For anyone ending up here and wondering if the feature was indeed requested on the bug tracker, @skagon has created this feature request: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103339