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I have some numeric constants in my data definition and would like to be able to use them inside my strings without having to embed them at runtime. Is this possible in MASM?

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LOWER_BOUND = 50
UPPER_BOUND = 100

promptMessage  BYTE  "Please enter a number between ", LOWER_BOUND, " and ", UPPER_BOUND, ".",10,13,0

I am using the Irvine library.

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  • NASM can stringify constants at assemble time with its preprocessor: Nasm: Convert integer to string using preprocessor. (Which you can then use in the list of operands to db). I don't know if MASM can do the same, or if so how. You could do something like BYTE (LOWER_BOUND/10)%10 + '0', LOWER_BOUND%10 + '0' to do it explicitly for a 2-digit number, or any other fixed width with leading zeros, but variable-width needs something conditional. Commented Nov 20, 2022 at 2:58
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