Continue text on next line

[Magnum]

I forgot how to continue text on the next line. (so I can see everything)

test db "Stress - the condition brought about by having to resist the temptation to beat the living daylights out of someone who richly deserves it."

[jj2007]

testline db "Stress - the condition brought about by having to resist the temptation"
   db " to beat the living daylights out of someone who richly deserves it."

In the code section, it's a backslash, or, with invoke, a simple comma.

[ecube]

thestring db 'whatever',13,10
             db 'second part of it',0

[frktons]

thestring db 'whatever',13,10
              db 'second part of it',0

Sorry E^cube, what is the purpose of inserting a newline-carriage return
inside the string? If you want to display it in two lines I can understand.
Otherwise what is it useful for?

[Magnum]

This is only printing the first line.

message1  db 'So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for',13,10
               db 'his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.  Job 42:10',0

[Magnum]

I think it is not printing right because sizeof isn't calculating the right size.

invoke   WriteFile, ebx, ADDR message1, SIZEOF message1, addr dwBytes, 0

[sinsi]

You can use the line continuation character with strings too

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message1  db 'So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for',13,10,\
             'his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.  Job 42:10'

If you are using WriteFile, the string doesn't have to be zero-terminated either - sizeof will include it and WriteFile will write it.

[MichaelW]

SIZEOF returns the number of bytes that follow DB on the first line. The data is structured as a null-terminated string, and you can use this to get the length or to display it.

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;======================================================================================
    include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc
;======================================================================================
    .data
      message1 db 'So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for',13,10
      db 'his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job. Job 42:10',0
    .code
;======================================================================================
start:
;======================================================================================
    print str$(SIZEOF message1),13,10
    invoke szLen, ADDR message1
    print str$(eax),13,10,13,10
    print ADDR message1,13,10,13,10
    inkey "Press any key to exit..."
    exit
;======================================================================================
end start


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So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for
his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job. Job 42:10


[Magnum]

Thanks a lot gentlemen.

[jj2007]

You can use the line continuation character with strings too

Yes that works perfectly. If and only if you use JWasm.

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include \masm32\include\masm32rt.inc

.data
MyStr db "This is \
a string", 0

.code

start: MsgBox 0, offset MyStr, "Test", MB_OK
exit

end start


However,

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MyStr db "This is ",
" a string", 0

works with all versions of ML and JWasm.