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- ; *** Listing 13-18 ***
- ;
- ; Copies a zero-terminated string to another string,
- ; filtering out non-printable characters by means of
- ; carefully customized code that performs the test
- ; directly in the loop.
- ;
- jmp Skip
- ;
- SourceString label byte
- db 'This is a sample string, consisting of '
- X=1
- rept 31
- db X
- X=X+1
- endm
- db 7fh
- db 'both printable and non-printable '
- db 'characters', 0
- DestinationString label byte
- db 200 dup (?)
- ;
- ; Copies a zero-terminated string to another string,
- ; filtering out non-printable characters.
- ;
- ; Input:
- ; DS:SI = source string
- ; ES:DI = destination string
- ;
- ; Output: none
- ;
- ; Registers altered: AL, SI, DI
- ;
- ; Direction flag cleared
- ;
- ; Note: Does not handle strings that are longer than 64K
- ; bytes or cross segment boundaries.
- ;
- CopyPrintable:
- cld
- CopyPrintableLoop:
- lodsb ;get the next byte to copy
- cmp al,20h
- jb NotPrintable ;not printable
- cmp al,7eh
- ja CopyPrintableLoop ;not printable
- stosb ;put the byte in the
- ; destination string
- jmp CopyPrintableLoop ;the character was
- ; printable, so it couldn't
- ; possibly have been 0. No
- ; need to check whether it
- ; terminated the string
- NotPrintable:
- and al,al ;was that the
- ; terminating zero?
- jnz CopyPrintableLoop ;no, do next byte
- stosb ;copy the terminating zero
- ret ;done
- ;
- Skip:
- call ZTimerOn
- mov di,seg DestinationString
- mov es,di
- mov di,offset DestinationString
- ;ES:DI points to the destination
- mov si,offset SourceString
- ;DS:SI points to the source
- call CopyPrintable ;copy the printable
- ; characters
- call ZTimerOff