i don't want to beat a dead horse and you guys are very helpful but. what if i needed to add one more boolean array. for example the first boolean array would select the bits in index 0 and 2 and the second boolean array would select index 1 and 3. the data from the second boolean array would go into the third column in the table. i tried expanding the example vi given, but being new to labview, i couldn't get things to modify. thank you