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Okay so I'm really new at this. I have to do an assignment that sorts through two strings that are inputs. these strings are names so will say name1 and name2, then once the user puts the names in it will then sort and print alphabetically on the screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Posted on 2006-04-11 10:45:16 by big_bad_wolf_582

Okay so ive got the comparing down i think! Here is my code thus far.

page  Add two numbers and store the results into the third variable 60,132
TITLE A04ASM1 (EXE)  Move and add operations
; ---------------------------------------------
STACK SEGMENT PARA STACK 'Stack'

STACK ENDS
; ----------------------------------------------
DATASEG SEGMENT PARA 'Data'
    prompt    DB  'Enter 1st Name? ',0DH,0AH,'$'
    promptnext    DB  0DH,0AH,'Enter 2nd Name ',0DH,0AH,'$'

    para_list  label byte
max_len    DB    10
act_len    DB    ?
input      DB    10 DUP(' ') 
 
  para_list1 label byte
max_len1  DB    15
act_len1  DB    ?
inputin    DB    15 DUP(' ')

DATASEG ENDS
; -----------------------------------------------
CODESEG SEGMENT PARA 'Code'
MAIN PROC    FAR
ASSUME  SS:STACK,DS:DATASEG,CS:CODESEG
MOV    AX,DATASEG ;Set address of data
MOV    DS,AX     ;segment in DS
   
        CALL    Q10CLEAR
A20:   
        MOV AX, 0B800H
        MOV ES, AX

        MOV AX, 0003H  ; Set the current video mode to text mode
        INT 10H        ; INT 10H, function 00H (mode=03H is standard text)

        MOV AX, 0500H  ; Set the active page = 00
        INT 10H
        MOV    DX,0000
        CALL    Q20CURSOR
        CALL    B10INPUT
        CALL    Q10CLEAR
        CMP    ACT_LEN,00
        CALL    COMPARE
A30:    MOV     AX,4C00H ;End processing
INT     21H
MAIN ENDP ;End of procedure

B10INPUT    PROC    NEAR
        PUSH    AX
        PUSH    DX
        MOV    AH,09H
        LEA    DX,PROMPT
        INT    21H
        MOV    AH,0AH
        LEA    DX,PARA_LIST
        INT    21H
        MOV    AH,09H
        LEA    DX,PROMPTNEXT
        INT    21H
        MOV    AH,0AH
        LEA    DX,PARA_LIST1
        INT    21H   
        POP    DX
        POP    AX
        RET
B10INPUT    ENDP

COMPARE    PROC  NEAR
        lea    si, INPUT
        lea    di, INPUTIN
        mov    cx, 10
        mov    ax, 15
        cmp    cx, ax
        ja      NoSwap
        xchg    ax, cx
NoSwap: repe    cmpsb
        jne    NotEqual
        mov    ax, 10
        cmp    ax, 15
NotEqual:
        RET
COMPARE      ENDP       


                           
Q10CLEAR    PROC    NEAR
        PUSHA
        MOV AH,06H      ;clear and scroll
        MOV AL,00H
        MOV BH,0F1H    ;white background, blue foreground
        MOV CX,000H    ;starting row:column
        MOV DX,184FH    ;ending row:column 
        INT 10H
        POPA
        INT 10H
        RET
Q10CLEAR      ENDP

Q20CURSOR    PROC    NEAR
        MOV    AH,02H
        MOV    BH,00
        INT    10H
        RET
Q20CURSOR    ENDP

       
CODESEG ENDS         ;End of segment
END     MAIN     ;End of program 

But now how do i sort it alphabetically? it is already going through and comparing but i want the two names to sort from A- Z any help would be great. Thanks