I wand to print star as many as user's input value but when I print a newline then my loop doesn't work otherwise without printing newline my code works fine. Why it's happening i don't understand.
.model small
.stack 100h
.data
msg1 db "How many star do you want to print: $"
newline db 10,13,"$"
.code
main proc
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ah,9
lea dx,msg1
int 21h
mov ah,1 ;taking input number
int 21h
mov bl,al
sub al,48
;if i add newline code here then my loop doesn't stop
; mov ah,9
; mov ah,newline
; int 21h
loop:
mov cx,0
mov cl,al
mov ah,2
mov dl,'*'
Top:
int 21h
loop Top
Exit:
endp
end main
The instruction loop
uses register cx
to count and repeat the process, so you can move the number of asterisk from al
into cl
:
mov ah,1 ;taking input number
int 21h
xor cx,cx ;◄■■ CLEAR CX.
mov cl,al ;◄■■ CX NOW HOLDS THE NUMBER OF ASTERISKS.
sub cl,48
;if i add newline code here then my loop doesn't stop
mov ah,9
lea dx,newline ;◄■■ UNCOMMENT LINE BREAK.
int 21h
loop:
;mov cx,0 ;◄■■ HERE WE CANNOT CHANGE CX BECAUSE
;mov cl,al ;◄■■ IT IS THE COUNTER FOR THE LOOP.
mov ah,2
mov dl,'*'
Top:
int 21h
loop Top ;◄■■ CX--. IF CX>0 JUMP.