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BitShift in AutoIt is an arithmetic bit shift, not a logical operation. Help file should really say so and warn that BitShift may produce surprising result to unsuspecting users, e.g.:

Local $i = 0xA0000000
Local $iSAR_1 = BitShift($i, -1)
ConsoleWrite($i & @TAB & Hex($i) & @LF & $iSAR_1 & @TAB & Hex($iSAR_1) & @LF)

 

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Okay, thanks.  I guess arithmetic and logical are better terms to describe it.  I can see the value of both methods, but it did cause some debugging time. I guess I should have been tipped off when it said each bit shift is equivalent to doubling or halving the value.

I'm going to write my own, hopefully that won't take too long.

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