lowByte()

Extracts the low-order (rightmost) byte of a variable (e.g. a word).

Syntax

lowByte(x)

Parameters

x: a value of any type. However, if a non-integral type is used, the results will be strange.

Returns

The low byte’s value (this will be between 0 and 255).

License and Attribution

This documentation page was adapted from the Arduino Reference Documentation, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.