NASM Assembly convert input to integer?

Question

Ok, so I\'m fairly new to assembly, infact, I\'m very new to assembly. I wrote a piece of code which is simply meant to take numerical input from the user, multiply it by 1

Answer 1

Here's a couple of functions for converting strings to integers, and vice versa:

; Input:
; ESI = pointer to the string to convert
; ECX = number of digits in the string (must be > 0)
; Output:
; EAX = integer value
string_to_int:
  xor ebx,ebx    ; clear ebx
.next_digit:
  movzx eax,byte[esi]
  inc esi
  sub al,'0'    ; convert from ASCII to number
  imul ebx,10
  add ebx,eax   ; ebx = ebx*10 + eax
  loop .next_digit  ; while (--ecx)
  mov eax,ebx
  ret


; Input:
; EAX = integer value to convert
; ESI = pointer to buffer to store the string in (must have room for at least 10 bytes)
; Output:
; EAX = pointer to the first character of the generated string
int_to_string:
  add esi,9
  mov byte [esi],STRING_TERMINATOR

  mov ebx,10         
.next_digit:
  xor edx,edx         ; Clear edx prior to dividing edx:eax by ebx
  div ebx             ; eax /= 10
  add dl,'0'          ; Convert the remainder to ASCII 
  dec esi             ; store characters in reverse order
  mov [esi],dl
  test eax,eax            
  jnz .next_digit     ; Repeat until eax==0
  mov eax,esi
  ret

And this is how you'd use them:

STRING_TERMINATOR equ 0

lea esi,[thestring]
mov ecx,4
call string_to_int
; EAX now contains 1234

; Convert it back to a string
lea esi,[buffer]
call int_to_string
; You now have a string pointer in EAX, which
; you can use with the sys_write system call

thestring: db "1234",0
buffer: resb 10

Note that I don't do much error checking in these routines (like checking if there are characters outside of the range '0' - '9'). Nor do the routines handle signed numbers. So if you need those things you'll have to add them yourself.