Perl: How do I extract certain bits from a byte and then covert these bits to a hex value?

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Published on 2012-11-24T16:39:53Z Indexed on 2012/11/24 17:04 UTC
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I need to extract certain bits of a byte and covert the extract bits back to a hex value.

Example (the value of the byte is 0xD2) :

76543210 bit position
11010010 is 0xD2

Bit 0-3 defines the channel which is 0010b is 0x2
Bit 4-5 defines the controller which is 01b is 0x1
Bit 6-7 defines the port which is 11b is 0x3

I somehow need to get from the byte is 0xD2 to channel is 0x2, controller is 0x1, port is 0x3

I googled allot and found the functions pack/unpack, vec and sprintf. But I'm scratching by head how to use the functions to achieve this. Any idea how to achieve this in Perl ?

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