Reading bits into and out of registers

Is it possible to read individual bits into and out of registers?

What Im looking to do is take a word variable, say %W2, and copy the individual bits to a series of single bit memory bits, say %B1, %B2, %B3...ect.

I then also would like to be able to write the %B bits back to a %W variable.

Jim

I'm pretty sure that it is possible. I think I did something like that on a machine, I'll have to review my notes and the config. It was several years ago when I set that machine up.

Thank you Todd,

I was able to figure out how to get the bits from a register to single bit holder after a bit of reading here and some tinkering.

A compare block with the expression: %w1&1=1 will evaluate true if the first bit of %w1 is a 1. This can be used to drive a coil.
Each bit can be isolated by using the correct "&" number
|-[%W1&1=1]---(%b1)-|
|-[%W1&2=2]---(%b2)-|
|-[%W1&4=4]---(%b3)-|
Where "1" gives us the binary number 0001
"2" gives us the binary number 0010
and "4" gives us the binary number 0100

Now I just need to figure out how to write from a single bit holder to a register.

Jim

you could do the conversion outside of classicladder with say mux16 and send it back to classicladder.
or this ladder seemed to work: