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donn

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donn 24 Jun 2010, 04:21

Hi, tried defining some characters, might have stored too many, if that's possible.

I get an error: Error: Extra characters on line, for the following:

B21 db 'Long Message.',10,0

The message is about 265 characters, I don't know if OpenOffice (used to calculate that) includes whitespace or punctuation.

I have some other messages I'm defining, some are kinda long, I don't know if the errors check sequentially because it didn't say that for some previous long ones.

Cheers, have a good night, wondering if anyone knows what that means?
Denat

24 Jun 2010, 04:21

LocoDelAssembly
Your code has a bug

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Location: Argentina

LocoDelAssembly 24 Jun 2010, 04:36

I've tried replacing 'Long Message.' with a 10,000+ chars strings and no problem at all. I'm using FASM 1.69.14.

Does the faulting line isolated in a separate source and compiled separately produce the same problem?

PS: Have you verified that the message itself does NOT contain the single quote (or double quote in case you used it to open the string) somewhere? This will give the same error message you mention:

Code:

B21 db 'Loco's test',10,0

The correct form is this:

Code:

B21 db 'Loco''s test',10,0
; Or:
B21 db "Loco's test",10,0

24 Jun 2010, 04:36

revolution
When all else fails, read the source

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revolution 24 Jun 2010, 04:45

"Extra characters on line" can also mean that fasm encountered a space, or tab, and then found something following:

Code:

label1 db 'test',13 10,0 ;error, the space ends the db statement

24 Jun 2010, 04:45

nathanpc

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Location: Brazil

nathanpc 25 Jun 2010, 01:21

denat, remember to use the code tags, to let the forums organized. Smile

25 Jun 2010, 01:21

donn

Joined: 05 Mar 2010
Posts: 321

donn 25 Jun 2010, 13:55

Yeah, it was the single quotes within the quotes that fixed the error. Yeah, when I write code into the post, ill put it in the format.

Awesome guys,
Denat

25 Jun 2010, 13:55

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