Hello :)
This one is driving me nuts..
I have in a buffer the string "123" (it can be a changing number - but will always be less than 1000.)
Now I need to know how much it is to initialize my loop. How do I get this value into ecx ( i mean 123d = 7Bh )
I've tried it myself into copying the value from right to left, substracting 30h from it, but then I have 01 02 03 written in my buffer and as the number could be "12" too at the beginning I simply can't take the first * 64h and the second * Ah + the third.
Honestly... I'm clueless :confused: Anyone ever had this problem?
Jimmy
This message was edited by JimmyClif, on 3/21/2001 12:56:53 PM
Hi JimmyClif,
For that, you should use the 'new' 'functions' like 'htodw' or the others. It is in the v6sp1 of Masm32.(look in the 'masmlib.hlp'):
In the help file:
Conversions
atodw
htodw
dwtoa
dw2hex
dw2ah
udw2str
ustr2dw
This message was edited by Vom-bonjour:-(), on 3/21/2001 1:40:58 PM
Hello Vom-Bonjour :D
Did you read my signature?
****D*mn**** Why does this happen to me all the time?
Thanks again ;)
I have no problems converting...but then I've built that wheel over and over again.
Set your "accumulator" register to 0, and then for each digit from left-to-right do this:
accumulator = 10 * accumulator + convert2binary(digitchar)
Change "10" to "16", modify "convert2binary" to handle A-F as digits, and you have a hexadecimal converter.
Using "123", we get
a = 0 ; 00h
a = 10 * (0) + 1 = 1 ; 01h
a = 10 * (1) + 2 = 12 ; 0ch
a = 10 * (12) + 3 = 123 ; 7bh
This message was edited by tank, on 3/21/2001 8:13:44 PM
My Idea for this is along the lines of what tank introduced, but his wil fail for 2 or 1 digit numbers unless checked for, as well i used shifts instead of multiplies for 10's and 100's:
.data
szNum db "501",0
.code
lea eax, szNum
mov edx,
xor eax, eax ; zero eax
mov ebx, edx ; copy it
shl ebx, 11 ; 1 byte + 3 bits
jc Do_Hundred ; 3 digits found
shl ebx, 8 ; check for 10's
jc Do_Tens
jmp Do_Ones
Do_Hundred:
mov ebx, edx ; copy it
and ebx, 0000000Fh ; get 100's
shl ebx, 2 ; 100 times X = (2^2 + 2^5 + 2^6) times X
add eax, ebx ; Start a count for 100's
shl ebx, 3 ;
add eax, ebx ; add again
shl ebx, 1 ;
add eax, ebx ; add it up for 100's
shr edx, 8
Do_Tens:
mov ebx, edx ; copy it
and ebx, 0000000Fh ; get 10's
shl ebx, 1 ; 10 times X = (2^1 + 2^3) times X
add eax, ebx ; Start a count for 10's
shl ebx, 2 ;
add eax, ebx ; add again
shr edx, 8
Do_Ones:
and edx, 0000000Fh
add eax, edx
To NaN:
If I get it right you are converting 3 bytes ASCII string representing dec value to DWORD?
May you be interested in this I wrote?
.data
szNumber db '501',0
.code
mov eax,dword ptr NUM ; U
xor edx,edx ; pare 1 clock V
AND eax,0F0F0Fh ;U
xor ecx,ecx ; pare 1 clock V
mov dl,ah ; - tens
mov cl,al ; pare 1 clock V - figures
lea edx, ;U edx*5
shr eax,16 ;V pare 1 clock al - hundreds
add edx,edx ; U edx*2
lea eax, ;V pare 1 clock
add edx,ecx ;U
lea eax, ;V pare 1 clock
shl eax,2 ;AGP 1 clock
add eax,ecx ;1 clock
;value in eax now ----------------
8 clocks
to Nan:
Sorry - two instr need to be added ater first
bswap eax
shr eax,8
Svin,
Thats very impressive. I keep forgeting the advantages of lea for mathematics (seeing it can provide shifting and adding at once).
Im at school right now, so i can't copy and test your source, but as i have read it, there is a small error in the last line, it should 'add eax, edx' since you have already added the ones (ecx) to (edx) three lines above.
None the less, it also has limitations of supporting numbers from 100 -> 999 in ASCII. The origion post indicated it must suport 0 -> 999, which is where my first 5 line of code checks for (and consequently adding some clocks).
mov ebx, edx ; copy it
shl ebx, 11 ; 1 byte + 3 bits
jc Do_Hundred ; 3 digits found
shl ebx, 8 ; check for 10's
jc Do_Tens
jmp Do_Ones
I normally code the conversion in a loop that checks if the next character is a valid digit. This allows conversion of arbitrarily sized numbers (provided the result doesn't overflow). It even allows for lots of leading zeros.
(As this was posted in General instead of Beginners, I assumed the inquirer was willing to figure that out. :D)
This message was edited by tank, on 3/23/2001 2:08:35 AM
As this was posted in General instead of Beginners...
Maybe I should have posted this in Algos too? *g*
Being honest... erm... actually.. I keep forgetting the masmlib :D ...
(Now, Jimmy hides in the codewoods far from all those fingers pointing at him)