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Old 17-Nov-2007, 00:46
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Assembly Language - Arrays

I am a beginner and am trying to display the current date. So far I have this but it just keeps printing Sunday which is the first entry in the "DayName" array. I am trying to get the current date from the system to display. Can anyone direct me in what I am doing wrong.
Heres my code...if need to see my macro file let me know.

Code:
.DATA
Day_length EQU  11
DayName DB  'Sunday.$   ',
          'Monday.$   ',
          'Tuesday.$  ',
          'Wednesday.$' ,       
          'Thursday.$ ',
          'Friday.$   ',
          'Saturday.$ '
Message     DB    'Today is $'

.CODE
  main    PROC
  _initreg
  _showText Message
  _initreg
  _GetDate
  
  mov bl, Day_length
  imul bl
  mov ax, OFFSET DayName
  
  _showDay DayName
    _endProg

Any help in the right direction would be appreciated!!
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Old 17-Nov-2007, 07:31
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Re: Assembly Language - Arrays

Quote:
Originally Posted by lilnaniam
it just keeps printing Sunday

What do you think that these three instructions do?
Code:
  mov bl, Day_length
  imul bl
  mov ax, OFFSET DayName

Here's what I think they do, but I cant test, since I have no way (and no desire) to assemble and execute them.

1. Put the decimal number 11 into the 8-bit register bl.

2. Multiply the contents of the 8-bit register al by the contents of the 8-bit register bl and store the 16-bit result in ax, which consists of ah:al.

3. Put the value of the symbol DayName (the address of the first character in the string 'Sunday.$ ') into the register ax.

Is that what you had in mind?

Regards,

Dave
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Old 17-Nov-2007, 10:31
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Re: Assembly Language - Arrays

Quote:
Originally Posted by davekw7x
What do you think that these three instructions do?
Code:
  mov bl, Day_length
  imul bl
  mov ax, OFFSET DayName

3. Put the value of the symbol DayName (the address of the first character in the string 'Sunday.$ ') into the register ax.

Is that what you had in mind?

Regards,

Dave

Ahhh....I see what I did wrong there it should be " add ax, OFFSET Dayname" . Thanks you for catching that. But now I am having problems displaying that. I know now that I some how need to send the ax register to my _showtext or create a new macro because the _showtext macro is:

Code:
_showDay MACRO strText
             lea	dx, strText
	mov	ah, 09h	
	int	21h
	ENDM
It is messing up the ax register before displaying. I do see that by the line _showDay DayName....is only taking the first value in the array. Thats why my result is always sunday. I need to direct it to the ax register. Do I need to possibly store it in the [si] or [di]? And create a new macro?
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Old 17-Nov-2007, 11:15
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Re: Assembly Language - Arrays

Ahhh....I got it working....I saved it to another variable and created a new macro that looks like so:
Code:
_showDay MACRO text
  mov	dx, text	
  mov	ah, 09h
  int	21h
	ENDM
Thanls for helping!!
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Old 27-Apr-2008, 16:19
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Re: Assembly Language - Arrays

hii illinum

dear im a very beginner in assembly
my project is to show date and time is assembly language masm 6 using simples coding
can u plz help me in this matter??
my id is mwasim22@yahoo.com
u can contact me there
plz reply me as soon as u can!
m really waiting for ur reply!!
regards!
 
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