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1990-02-15
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;
; *** Listing 14-1 ***
;
; Copies a zero-terminated string to another string,
; filtering out non-printable characters by means of a
; subroutine that performs the test. The subroutine is
; called with a far call and returns with a far return.
;
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 (?)
;
; Determines whether a character is printable (in the range
; 20h through 7Eh).
;
; Input:
; AL = character to check
;
; Output:
; Zero flag set to 1 if character is printable,
; set to 0 otherwise
;
; Registers altered: none
;
IsPrintable proc far
cmp al,20h
jb IsPrintableDone ;not printable
cmp al,7eh
ja IsPrintableDone ;not printable
cmp al,al ;set the Zero flag to 1, since the
; character is printable
IsPrintableDone:
ret
IsPrintable endp
;
; 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
call IsPrintable ;is it printable?
jnz NotPrintable ;nope, don't copy it
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