Crazy AND operator

I'd like to get the low word of a long datatype. Let's say L is the long data type, and L=&hFFFFFFFF (max value of long). I've tried L AND &hFFFF to get the low word but it's fail. The result is not the extracted Word, but the same value of L.
Normally, it works fine with integer and byte datatype. Anyone got some idea?

Thanks in advance

Try
L And &HFFFF&
without the &, &HFFFF is interpreted as an integer... and thus the AND operation will not work as you want it to. :)

Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (pDest As Any, pSource As Any, _
ByVal ByteLen As Long)

Public Function HiWord(ByVal dw As Long) As Integer

CopyMemory HiWord, ByVal VarPtr(dw) + 2, 2&

End Function

Public Function LoWord(ByVal dw As Long) As Integer

CopyMemory LoWord, dw, 2&

End Function

Wow! thanks 4 promptly answers. ;-D