Bytes to Binary in C

Question

I\'m trying to simply convert a byte received from fget into binary.

I know the value of the first byte was 49 based on printing the value. I now need to convert this in

Answer 1

The problem you're having is that your assignment isn't resulting in a true or false value.

bits[i] = byte & (mask << i);

This gets the value of the bit. You need to see if the bit is on or off, like this:

bits[i] = (byte & (mask << i)) != 0;