A simple problem can anyone help

[Knight3]

I'm writing a program in assebly using x86 intel processor series and a flat model

can anyome suggest anything about this?

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input string,40 ;the user enter a characher 'q' for instance

atod string ; now the value in eax as decimal

;;i need to compare the number and if is 'q' to quit
;;i've tried this senario

cmp eax,'q'
jz quit ;;;;;;not working

cmp al,'q' ;;;;;;not again
jz quit

cmp eax,113 ;;;;where 113 is the decimal ascii value of 'q'
jz quit

cmp al,113 ;;;;;nothing
jz quit

cmp al,71 ;;;i didnt not make the convertion here atod
;;and nothing again 71 is hex of 'q'

cmp eax,113 ;;;;same;;nothing

can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

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[Tight_Coder_Ex]

What is the underlying operating system, or are you using BIOS calls.

In any event, EAX won't work because especially in the case of ASCII only an 8 bit value is returned and you are comparing a 32 bit value and may not know at any given time what the value of bits 31 - 8 are. Comparing cmp al,'q', should work except where caps lock may be on then you would have to compare against 'Q'. The method I usually use is to implement a case insensitive comparison where I'll convert all characters in AL to upper or lower case.

mov al, [Character]
and al, 0x5f
cmp al,'Q'
jz Done

[Knight3]

What is the underlying operating system, or are you using BIOS calls.

In any event, EAX won't work because especially in the case of ASCII only an 8 bit value is returned and you are comparing a 32 bit value and may not know at any given time what the value of bits 31 - 8 are. Comparing cmp al,'q', should work except where caps lock may be on then you would have to compare against 'Q'. The method I usually use is to implement a case insensitive comparison where I'll convert all characters in AL to upper or lower case.

mov al, [Character]
and al, 0x5f
cmp al,'Q'
jz Done

Thanks Tight_Coder_Ex

You made it clear to me thanks.Problem solved.

[mytime19]

give me complete program i'll solve it..