Convert symbol passed from command line

[vid]

I am trying to include symbol passed from command line as string in my app. For example, app is compiled with:

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ml /DREVISION=135M ...

Now in my code I'd like to do something like

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db MakeString(REVISION), 0
(of course I just made that MakeString up), and get same thing as I'd get with

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db "135M", 0

How to do this in MASM?

[dedndave]

well - the symbol is essentially an EQUate - rather than defined data (as with DB)
try this

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.data?
LabelName db 4 dup(?)
.code
        mov     LabelName,REVISION
then, you can reference LabelName
you may want to make it 5 bytes and add a null terminator   :P

that will work for numeric values
i am not sure how to go about it for a TEXTEQUate

[jj2007]

This works:

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ml.exe /DMyVersion=Hello

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.code
tmp$ CATSTR <print ">, MyVersion, <", 13, 10>
tmp$


[vid]

Worked like charm, thank you very much