String Input to Bits

[mwalk99]

Hi there:

I'm taking an ASCII input using a String control and then using convert String to Byte Array to get the byte from each character.  From there, it is my goal to iterate through the byte array and get the individual bits of each byte so that I can manipulate them.  I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do that last part - I've searched a few other topics on this board but they just link to VIs that I don't fully understand.  I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thank you. 

[James.M · Accepted solution]

So you're just trying to get at the bits?

I hope this helps clarify:

[GerdW]

Hi mwalk,

use an autoindexing FOR loop with a "number to boolean array" function inside…

You know you can manipulate bits directly with U8 values?

[mwalk99]

Yes that is what I'm after, thank you.  I guess what I'm confused on is what exactly you did within that loop - I haven't got the slightest idea what those functions are. 

[James.M]

It's a For loop. The tunnel on the left side is set to Auto-Index through the unsigned byte array (so it's looping through each element). The main nodes inside are Byte Array to String and Number to Boolean Array.

I attached a snippet of the code to the original post, too, so you can drag that on to your block diagram if you have 2014 or newer LV.

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[mwalk99]

Aha I got it, thank you all - I didn't realize there was a number to boolean array function already! 

[GerdW]

BuildArray with just one input

U8 array to string - to counterpart to the function you already know

integer number to boolean array