Hello

Pls help little noobie struggling with fasm (not fasmg) macros...

Am having hard time trying to build macro to parse symbol starting with dot ('.') :
basically i wud like to pass param such as : .somelabel (note the leading dot .),
to some macro and strip out the leading dot internally to keep only the trailing part,
i.e. only 'somelabel'.
Can't find a way around this.

typ., e.g.:

----
macro dummy param {
match =.arg, param \{
arg equ foo
\}
}

dummy .somelabel
----

=> compiles but does not work : symbolic constant doesn't get defined

Desperate to find a way around this...
(i have tried a number of other alternatives .. with no more luck)


Would any of you experts out there pls kindly help me with this... ?
Tx


for ref. same thing using leading colon ':' i/o dot '.' works perfectly :
----
macro dummy param {
match =:arg, param \{
arg equ foo
\}
}

dummy :somelabel
----
=> this correctly define symbolic constant 'somelabel' with value = foo

Tx
Regards

The problem you have is that the dots are not special. They are simply part of the name. So just pretend that they are a normal letter in a label.

Tx but that doesnt answer my question : i am looking to get only the part following the dot. Is there no way around this?

Because "." is not treated as a special character by fasm 1 and the preprocessor does not have an ability to split or alter the name tokens, it is not possible. It is one of the limitations that led to the design of the successor engine (fasmg).