Entering and storing a string – Texas Instruments TI-86 User Manual

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Chapter 16: Programming

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TI assembly language programs and other programs are available on TI’s World Wide Web site:

http:

àà

www.ti.com

calc

When you download an assembly language program, it is stored among the other programs
as a

PRGM

NAMES

menu item. You can:

♦

Transmit it using the TI

-86 communication link (Chapter 18).

♦

Delete it using the

MEM

DELETE:PRGM

screen (Chapter 17).

♦

Call it from another program as a subroutine (page 224).

To run an assemblyProgramName, the syntax is:

Asm(

assemblyProgramName

)

If you write an assembly language program, use the two instructions below from the

CATALOG

AsmComp(

AsciiAssemblyPrgmName

HexAssemblyPrgmName

)

Compiles an assembly language program written in ASCII
and stores the hex version

AsmPrgm

Identifies an assembly language program; must be
entered as the first line of an assembly language program

Entering and Storing a String

A string is a sequence of characters that you enclose within quotation marks.

♦

A string defines characters to be displayed in a program.

♦

A string accepts input from the keyboard in a program.

To enter a string directly, the syntax is:

string

To concatenate (join together) two or more strings, use \. The syntax is:

stringA

"+"

stringB

"+"

stringC

...

You do not use quotation
marks to enter a string name.
In concatenation, you can
substitute

stringName

for

any "

string