Swapping a byte's nibbles

For those compilers that do not have a built-in function for swapping a byte's nibbles, a simple user function can be created:

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unsigned char SwapNibbles (unsigned char x)
{
  return ((x >> 4) & 0x0F) | ((x << 4) & 0xF0);
}

Code C - [expand]
1 2 3 4	unsigned char SwapNibbles (unsigned char x) { return ((x >> 4) & 0x0F) \| ((x << 4) & 0xF0); }

And a couple of function call examples:

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unsigned char ch1, ch2;
ch1 = SwapNibbles(0xA3);  //ch1=0x3A
ch2 = SwapNibbles(ch1);   //ch2=0xA3

Code C - [expand]
1 2 3	unsigned char ch1, ch2; ch1 = SwapNibbles(0xA3); //ch1=0x3A ch2 = SwapNibbles(ch1); //ch2=0xA3

Happy coding!
Alexandros

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