Extract the Nibble from an 8-bit Register

Code

#include <stdio.h>

unsigned char extractNibble(unsigned char reg, int pos) {
    reg = (pos==1) ? (reg >> 4) : (reg & 0x0f);
    return reg;
}

int main() {
    unsigned char reg;
    int pos;
    scanf("%hhu %d", &reg, &pos);
    printf("%d", extractNibble(reg, pos));
    return 0;
}

Solving Approach

higher nibble by shifting the i/p and lower nibble by masking the higher bits via and operation.