The following tech recipe covers how to use the DUP (duplicate) command, nested or un-nested,
Just as its name implies, DUP duplicates text.
Straight Example:
text DB 10 DUP (’W’) ;initializes 20 bytes to W
The number after DB defines how many bytes to repeat for, and then the ‘W’ defines what to repeat.
Nested:
barCode DB 4 DUP(3 DUP (’l’),2 DUP (’|’),5 DUP (’I’))
This reserves 40 bytes in total which are initialized to: lll||IIIIIlll||IIIIIlll||IIIIIlll||IIIII.
Each pass through creates lll||IIIII, and then this is repeated four times as it is nested within another DUP command.
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-William. § (marvin_gohan)
