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lepricaun · Nov 28th, 2004, 11:23 AM

hi all,

i'm having trouble printing numbers to the screen:

.model small
.stack
.data
.code 

start:

mov ah,02h
mov dl, 48
int 21h

mov ax,4c00h
mov int 21h

end start

this code will print the character '0' to the screen, but how i can i let my code print the contents of dl (48) to the screen instead?

thanks in advance,

Kind regards

Eggbert · Nov 28th, 2004, 12:12 PM

In assembly language you can only print characters. What you need to do is convert the binary representation of 48 to it's character representation of '4' '8'. A web search would help you more than a quick solution, so I'll direct you to www.google.com.

lepricaun · Nov 28th, 2004, 3:07 PM

thanks for your reply, that's all i needed to know... i just hoped there was another way of printing them, but appearantly there isn't

Nov 28th, 2004, 11:23 AM	#1
lepricaun Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 111 Rep Power: 4	hi all, i'm having trouble printing numbers to the screen: (Toggle Plain Text) .model small .stack .data .code start: mov ah,02h mov dl, 48 int 21h mov ax,4c00h mov int 21h end start .model small .stack .data .code start: mov ah,02h mov dl, 48 int 21h mov ax,4c00h mov int 21h end start this code will print the character '0' to the screen, but how i can i let my code print the contents of dl (48) to the screen instead? thanks in advance, Kind regards __________________ http://www.white-scorpion.nl

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lepricaun Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 111 Rep Power: 4	thanks for your reply, that's all i needed to know... i just hoped there was another way of printing them, but appearantly there isn't __________________ http://www.white-scorpion.nl

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Nov 28th, 2004, 12:12 PM	#2
Eggbert Professional Programmer Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 250 Rep Power: 4	In assembly language you can only print characters. What you need to do is convert the binary representation of 48 to it's character representation of '4' '8'. A web search would help you more than a quick solution, so I'll direct you to www.google.com.

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