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In Assembler we could do something like-I think the Cobol experts here could come up with something similar.

Agreed, but ecause the questioner did not clarify his parameters for the task, I "guessed between the lines" and made the assumption that the reverse would have to be done without defining additional storage.

I suppose in Assembler I can load the field into a register, and do a few bit shifts.