string array

[slovach]

in C i would do something like this as it's much cleaner and nicer than individually adding each one. but how would i go about accomplishing the same thing in mASM?

const char *omgarray[] = { "One", "Two" };
int count;
for(count = 0; Count < 2; Count++)
{
     SendMessage(cbo, CB_ADDSTRING, 0, omgarray[Count]);
}

[ToutEnMasm]

Hello,

.data
omgarray db "One",0,"Two",0,0
.code
lea ecx,omgarray
PrintArray:
push ecx
invoke SendMessage,cbo, CB_ADDSTRING, 0,ecx
pop ecx
@@:
.if byte ptr [ecx] != 0
   inc ecx
   jmp @B
.else
   ;test to see if it is the end of the array
   .if byte ptr [ecx+1] != 0
      inc ecx       ;point next chain
      jmp PrintArray
   .endif
.endif

[slovach]

thank you!

[zooba]

The C style one is actually an array of pointers to strings, more like this:

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stringOne BYTE "One", 0
stringTwo BYTE "Two", 0
omgarray DWORD stringOne, stringTwo

There's plenty of examples on the forum for this sort of thing. A search for "string array" will probably find at least a couple of topics with the same subject.

Cheers,

Zooba :U

[drizz]

in C i would do something like this as it's much cleaner and nicer than individually adding each one.

it can be clean and nice in masm too if you use macros.

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omgarray PCHAR T("One"),T("Two")

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T MACRO __qstr:VARARG
LOCAL __sym,__seg
__seg EQU <.code>
%IFIDNI <@CurSeg>,<_DATA>
__seg EQU <.data>
ENDIF
.const
ALIGN 4
__sym LABEL BYTE
IFDIFI <__qstr>,<>
DB __qstr
ENDIF
DB 0
__seg
EXITM <OFFSET __sym>
ENDM