How to swap nibbles in C?

How to swap the nibble bit positions of a number?

For example: 534, convert it into binary, the rightmost 4 bits has to be interchanged with the leftmost 4 bits and then make a new number with that.

Anyone know how to do this?


Sean Anderson's bit twiddling guide has the following:

// swap nibbles ... 
v = ((v >> 4) & 0x0F0F0F0F) | ((v & 0x0F0F0F0F) << 4);

under the entry for Reverse an N-bit quantity in parallel in 5 * lg(N) operations.


Start from the fact that hexadecimal 0xf covers exactly four bits. There are four nibbles in a 16-bit number. The masks for the nibbles are 0xf000, 0xf00, 0xf0, and 0xf. Then start masking, shifting and bitwise OR-ing.


1)

y = ((x >> 4) & 0x0f) | ((x << 4) & 0xf0);

2)

unsigned char swap_nibbles(unsigned char c)
{
     unsigned char temp1, temp2;

     temp1 = c & 0x0F;
     temp2 = c & 0xF0;
     temp1=temp1 << 4;
     temp2=temp2 >> 4;

     return(temp2|temp1); //adding the bits
}

3)

unsigned char nibbleSwap(unsigned char a)
{
    return (a<<4) | (a>>4);
}