title: C#: How to bit shift hexadecimal digits
body: <p>Okay, I am working on a card playing program, and I am storing card values as hexadecimal digits. Here is the array:</p>
  
  <pre><code> public int[] originalCards = new int[54]
          {
              0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17, 0x18, 0x19, 0x1A, 0x1B, 0x1C, 0x1D,
              0x21, 0x22, 0x23, 0x24, 0x25, 0x26, 0x27, 0x28, 0x29, 0x2A, 0x2B, 0x2C, 0x2D,
              0x31, 0x32, 0x33, 0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37, 0x38, 0x39, 0x3A, 0x3B, 0x3C, 0x3D,
              0x41, 0x42, 0x43, 0x44, 0x45, 0x46, 0x47, 0x48, 0x49, 0x4A, 0x4B, 0x4C, 0x4D,
              0x50, 0x51
          };
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The first digit refers to the suit (1 = spades; 2 = clubs; .... 5 = Jokers)
  The second digit is the number of the card (1 = ace, 5 = 5; 13 = K, etc).</p>
  
  <p>I would like to do something like the following:
  <code></p>
  
  <p>Pseudocode:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    public int ReturnCard(int num)
      {
          int card = currentDeck[num];
          int suit = card.firsthexdigit;
          int value = card.secondhexdigit;
          return 0;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></code></p>
  
  <p>I don't need a new method to work on ints, I just included it for clarity's sake.</p>
  
  <p>Anybody know how to do this in C#?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Okay, I am using bit shifting as described in one of the answers. I can get the second digit (the suit) just fine, but the first digit keeps coming out as '0'. Any idea why?</p>
  
  <p>Edit:edit: okay, works fine now. Thanks guys.</p>