How can I move text into a string, each index containing one character?

I am working on LSB Steganography. I converted my text message into bits, but I'm not sure how I can move that into an array with each index containing only one of the bits each (such as [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, etc.]) so that I can loop through it and check each index with another value. If this isn't feasible, is there a way that I can put all of the bits into a string and then loop through the string one character at a time?

Answer 1

[Prakhar Jain]

converted_text_msg_in_bits = '1001'; % Change this with your bit sequence
array_output_indexwise = converted_text_msg_in_bits - '0'; % This is your required array of bits