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- ; Searches a text buffer for a text string. Uses REPNZ SCASB to scan
- ; the buffer for locations that match the first character of the
- ; searched-for string, then uses REPZ CMPS to check fully only those
- ; locations that REPNZ SCASB has identified as potential matches.
- ;
- ; Adapted from Zen of Assembly Language, by Michael Abrash
- ;
- ; C small model-callable as:
- ; unsigned char * FindString(unsigned char * Buffer,
- ; unsigned int BufferLength, unsigned char * SearchString,
- ; unsigned int SearchStringLength);
- ;
- ; Returns a pointer to the first match for SearchString in Buffer, or
- ; a NULL pointer if no match is found. Buffer should not start at
- ; offset 0 in the data segment to avoid confusing a match at 0 with
- ; no match found.
-
- Parms struc
- dw 2 dup(?) ;pushed BP/return address
- Buffer dw ? ;pointer to buffer to search
- BufferLength dw ? ;length of buffer to search
- SearchString dw ? ;pointer to string for which to search
- SearchStringLength dw ? ;length of string for which to search
- Parms ends
- .model small
- .code
- public _FindString
- _FindString proc near
- push bp ;preserve caller's stack frame
- mov bp,sp ;point to our stack frame
- push si ;preserve caller's register variables
- push di
- cld ;make string instructions increment pointers
- mov si,[bp+SearchString] ;pointer to string to search for
- mov bx,[bp+SearchStringLength] ;length of string
- and bx,bx
- jz FindStringNotFound ;no match if string is 0 length
- mov dx,[bp+BufferLength] ;length of buffer
- sub dx,bx ;difference between buffer and string lengths
- jc FindStringNotFound ;no match if search string is
- ; longer than buffer
- inc dx ;difference between buffer and search string
- ; lengths, plus 1 (# of possible string start
- ; locations to check in the buffer)
- mov di,ds
- mov es,di
- mov di,[bp+Buffer] ;point ES:DI to buffer to search thru
- lodsb ;put the first byte of the search string in AL
- mov bp,si ;set aside pointer to the second search byte
- dec bx ;don't need to compare the first byte of the
- ; string with CMPS; we'll do it with SCAS
- FindStringLoop:
- mov cx,dx ;put remaining buffer search length in CX
- repnz scasb ;scan for the first byte of the string
- jnz FindStringNotFound ;not found, so there's no match
- ;found, so we have a potential match-check the
- ; rest of this candidate location
- push di ;remember the address of the next byte to scan
- mov dx,cx ;set aside the remaining length to search in
- ; the buffer
- mov si,bp ;point to the rest of the search string
- mov cx,bx ;string length (minus first byte)
- shr cx,1 ;convert to word for faster search
- jnc FindStringWord ;do word search if no odd byte
- cmpsb ;compare the odd byte
- jnz FindStringNoMatch ;odd byte doesn't match, so we
- ; haven't found the search string here
- FindStringWord:
- jcxz FindStringFound ;test whether we've already checked
- ; the whole string; if so, this is a match
- ; bytes long; if so, we've found a match
- repz cmpsw ;check the rest of the string a word at a time
- jz FindStringFound ;it's a match
- FindStringNoMatch:
- pop di ;get back pointer to the next byte to scan
- and dx,dx ;is there anything left to check?
- jnz FindStringLoop ;yes-check next byte
- FindStringNotFound:
- sub ax,ax ;return a NULL pointer indicating that the
- jmp FindStringDone ; string was not found
- FindStringFound:
- pop ax ;point to the buffer location at which the
- dec ax ; string was found (earlier we pushed the
- ; address of the byte after the start of the
- ; potential match)
- FindStringDone:
- pop di ;restore caller's register variables
- pop si
- pop bp ;restore caller's stack frame
- ret
- _FindString endp
- end