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Calculate Low And High-Byte Of A Memory Address
Category
Programming/BASIC

Topic
Sometimes you need to extract the Highbyte and the Lowbyte as Integer of an Integer 16Bit Address.
Example $2001
$20 is the Highbyte
$01 is the Lowbyte

q=DEC("2001") : REM DEC Converts an HEX to an INT
Low-Byte = q and 255
High-Byte = (q/256) and 255

Keywords
high byte, low byte 

Credits
George (Edited by gerliczer @2012-08-15) 



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