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Re: A86: a question
Yeah, sorry, I forgot to zero-terminate the strings in my example.
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From: Samuel Camp <sampablo@juno.com>
To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, September 26, 1998 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: A86: a question
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><<What I want to do is use _vputs like this:
>ld hl,string
>call _vputs
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>string:
> .db "the first string"
>string2:
> .db "the second string"
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>Can I make it where after _vputs is called, it points to string2?
>Thanks, >>
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>Actually, you need zero terminated strings, because that's how _puts
>knows how to stop. If you called _puts now, _puts would continue to
>write out what hl points to until it encountered a zero. If you had
>zero's terminating both of your strings, then yes, hl would point to
>string2. That's another thing that _puts does. I hope this helps.
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>Sam
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