STRING OPERATIONS |
CHAPTER 8 |
8.1 Using String Instructions
8.2 Repeat Prefixes and More String Instructions
8.3 Character Translation
8.4 Converting a 2’s Complement Integer to an ASCII String
8.5 Chapter Summary
Computers are frequently used to manipulate character strings as well as numeric data. In data processing, application names, addresses, and so forth must be stored and sometimes rearranged. Text editor and word processor programs must be capable of searching for and moving strings of characters. An assembler must be able to separate assembly language statement elements, identifying those that are reserved mnemonics. Even when computation is primarily numerical, it is often necessary to convert a character string to an internal numerical ...
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