First off, this is homework.
I'm trying to read a 5 digit number into the register bx. The number is assumed to be no greater than 65535 (16 bits). Below is how I am attempting to do so.
However, when I attempt to print the number, I am only printing the very last digit that was entered. Which leads me to guess that when I add another number to bx it is overwriting the previous number, but I am unable to see the problem. Any help would be appreciated, I'm almost certain that it is something small I'm overlooking :-/
mov cx,0x05 ; loop 5 times
mov bx,0 ; clear the register we are going to store our result in
mov dx,10 ; set our divisor to 10
read:
mov ah,0x01 ; read a character function
int 0x21 ; store the character in al
sub al,0x30 ; convert ascii number to its decimal equivalent
and ax,0x000F ; set higher bits of ax to 0, so we are left with the decimal
push ax ; store the number on the stack, this is the single digit that was typed
; at this point we have read the char, converted it to decimal, and pushed it onto the stack
mov ax,bx ; move our total into ax
mul dx ; multiply our total by 10, to shift it right 1
pop bx ; pop our single digit into bx
add bx,ax ; add our total to bx
loop read ; read another char