Reading Bits from Integer Tag

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Is it possible to read the bit of an OPC Tag set as an integer?

I want to read an individual bit off a DINT tag pulled from a PLC in scripting, without having to break the tags into individual Igniton tags.

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There 's an expression function getBit…
If you want in scripting, look here…

def getbit(x,n):
  "Get the n-th bit of the number x"
  return x & (1 << n) and 1 or 0

Explanation: x & (1 << n) means bitwise AND between x and 2^n. And the expression P and 1 or 0 means: if P then return 1, otherwise return 0.

And this works for numbers of any size. Python is not limiting you to 32 bit integers.

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