Can I Read A Byte Inside A Word?
Working with Siemens TIA Portal often means navigating data types that behave a little differently than expected. One question that comes up regularly is whether you can access the individual bytes or even bits inside a declared word variable, a symbolic variable. While the capability exists, TIA Portal does not make it obvious, and many programmers miss the available slicing syntax entirely.
Understanding how to break down a word into its underlying components is incredibly useful, especially when working with communications, packed values, or hardware interfaces that encode data at the byte and bit level.
In this breakdown, you will learn how word slicing works in TIA Portal, how to extract and map bytes and bits cleanly, and what limitations you need to be aware of when working with sliced addresses.
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