Getting String Data w/Inline Assembler

[Scott Slater]

I am looking for the an example of how to get the data from a dynamic
string and its length using PB-DOS's Inline Assembler. What would be
the DOS equivelant to the 32-bit chunk below?

   ! mov eax, StringIn       ; Get Input Buffer Handle to eax
   ! mov eax, [eax]          ; get address of data
  
   ! mov edx, [eax-4]        ; StringIn's Length into edx
   ! mov ebx, [eax+1]        ; second character into ebx

StringIn is a dynamic string.


Any help will be greatly appreciated....

Thanks

Scott Slater

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[Tom Hanlin]

In the IDE, press F1 twice for the Help table of contents. Select
"Internal Procedures". Select "GETSTRLOC".

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Scott Slater]

Thank you very much! That did the trick...

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[Davide Vecchi]

If running PB/DOS under Win (at least 9x) in a DOS box, try the "Edit -> Mark" item from the control menu of the DOS box (or clicking the dotted square icon in the box toolbar), then selecting the text with the mouse, then "Edit -> Copy" still from the control menu (or clicking the Copy icon).
If your box is at full screen instead, you can hit PrtScrn key to copy the whole screen as text.

PS I translated Edit and Mark from my italian Win95 so i' m not 100% sure the names are the same.


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Davide Vecchi
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[Lance Edmonds]

Yes, that is correct (Edit/Mark). Click/drag the mouse to "mark" the desired text rectangle, and press ENTER to copy it to the clipboard.

If you are running full-screen, press ALT+SPACE to bring up the window menu.

If Windowed under Win9x, you can also use the optional window toolbar buttons. The toolbar can be enabled through the window menu too.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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