In AOA Win32 version several reference is made to the chapters on "Advanced String Handling", and also Volume on Advanced String Handling.
Will there be a volume on advanced string handling?
Best,
Scott
Will there be a volume on advanced string handling?
Best,
Scott
In AOA Win32 version several reference is made to the chapters on "Advanced String Handling", and also Volume on Advanced String Handling.
Will there be a volume on advanced string handling?
Best,
Scott
"The best laid plans...." :-)
Actually, I have a couple chapters written in that volume (though they
need some *serious* proofreading.
The short answer, however, is no.
Because AoA is soon to appear in published form, there are some
restrictions placed on AoA on Webster. I was able to convince the
publisher to allow me to leave the electronic version on Webster
so a free copy will always be available, but my contract has a clause
about "competing works."
What I will probably do is work on a book entitled
"Advanced Assembly Language Programming" and work the
string handling stuff into that text.
Volume Six was originally slated to have the following chapters:
Ch 1: HLA Strings
An in-depth discussion of the HLA string format, how to write your
own string functions (using that format), a full discussion of all of
the HLA Standard Library string functions, etc. This chapter currently
contains about 50 pages.
Ch 2: String Matching
This chapter (nothing written yet) was going to cover some of the
more popular string-matching algorithms (e.g., booyer-moore).
Ch 3: Pattern Matching
This chapter discusses pattern matching in HLA (using the HLA
Standard Library pattern.hhf library module). It discusses
regular expressions, context free grammars, and stuff like that.
It's currently 38 pages (though far from complete at this point).
Ch 4: Regular Expressions and Context Free Grammars
More on pattern matching, but how to implement this activity
in pure assembly rather than by using the HLA Standard library
pattern matching routines. This chapter is currently 36 pages
long, but it's mostly based on the material from Chapter 16 (?)
of the 16-bit edition of AoA. I haven't gotten around to doing
much of the editing needed to convert it to HLA yet.
Ch 5: Tables
This chapter is intended to discuss associative arrays and
search tables (not the same thing as lookup tables to an
assembly programmer). Nothing has been written yet.
I'm not sure how much effort would be necessary to put these
chapters into a usable form for Webster, but if there are some
people out there who are willing to proofread them (at least, the
ones that actually have some material written), I could provide
PDF files.
Randy Hyde
I would like to proof them.
Who is the AOA publisher you picked (if it isn't premature too say)?
Best,
Scott
Who is the AOA publisher you picked (if it isn't premature too say)?
Best,
Scott
I would like to proof them.
Who is the AOA publisher you picked (if it isn't premature too say)?
Best,
Scott
No Starch Press
http://www.nostarchpress.com
Remind me about the proofing issue in about a month.
I'm busy wrapping up "Write Great Code" right now and
I don't have much free time (and it will take at least a day
to put those files in a form that accessible to people).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
Hi Randy,
No Starch Press
http://www.nostarchpress.com
Remind me about the proofing issue in about a month.
I'm busy wrapping up "Write Great Code" right now and
I don't have much free time (and it will take at least a day
to put those files in a form that accessible to people).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
It's been more than a month, so if you have the time I am still interested in proofing. You appeared to be busy in late Feb. I didn't intend to wait this long to bug you though. :-)
Best,
Scott
No Starch Press
http://www.nostarchpress.com
Remind me about the proofing issue in about a month.
I'm busy wrapping up "Write Great Code" right now and
I don't have much free time (and it will take at least a day
to put those files in a form that accessible to people).
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
It's been more than a month, so if you have the time I am still interested in proofing. You appeared to be busy in late Feb. I didn't intend to wait this long to bug you though. :-)
Best,
Scott
Hi Randy,
It's been more than a month, so if you have the time I am still interested in proofing. You appeared to be busy in late Feb. I didn't intend to wait this long to bug you though. :-)
Best,
Scott
Well, Webster seems to be down right now, but I have taken two of the chapters
and put them on Webster, accessible via
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA.html.
If they aren't up in a couple of days, remind me again -- I just forgot to upload them once Webster came back up.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
Okay, I've put two of the "never before seen" chapters up on Webster now.
I've got another chapter on pattern matching involving regular expressions to work on (this chapter contains a lot of material from the 16-bit edition; I still need to convert the 16-bit code to HLA syntax). At some point or another I need to add a chapter on string (as opposed to pattern) matching. But there are several projects ahead of this.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA.html
I've got another chapter on pattern matching involving regular expressions to work on (this chapter contains a lot of material from the 16-bit edition; I still need to convert the 16-bit code to HLA syntax). At some point or another I need to add a chapter on string (as opposed to pattern) matching. But there are several projects ahead of this.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA.html
Hi Randy,
I downloaded them, thankyou!
Best,
Scott
I downloaded them, thankyou!
Best,
Scott