Shell Programming and Scripting

TO THE ALMIGHTY FORUM ,
though i have already posted the same question on hex to binary thread , i am posting here also for other beginners who may benefit from this thread...

I have a 32 bit binary containing a series of 1' and 0's , and i am stuck in between the script trying to get the value 1' and 0's into the respective variables , the variables range from b1 to b32 ...

so here goes my question

binary = 101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 ( 32 bits of 1 and 0's)

looking at the above number .. i am trying to get the values of the 1' s and 0's into their respective place variables ... in the above case the result of the query should assign the values of 1 and 0's to their variables , so i can address those variables in the rest of the script

my rest of the script looks like this

if $b1 = 1 then raise the flag
else if $b1=0 then do not raise the flag

if $b2 = 1 then raise the flag
else if $b2 = 0 then do not raise the flag

if $b3= 1 then raise the flag
else if $b3=0 then do not raise the flag

so on fo the 32 variables.................

Your suggestions ..comments and help is appreciated

And store them into an array ?

Venu, please do not create duplicate threads.