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<h4 class="subsection">9.45.5 String Substitution</h4>
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<p>A subset of allowable symbols (which we’ll call subsyms) may be assigned
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arbitrary string values. This is roughly equivalent to C preprocessor
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#define macros. When <code>as</code> encounters one of these
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symbols, the symbol is replaced in the input stream by its string value.
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Subsym names <strong>must</strong> begin with a letter.
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<p>Subsyms may be defined using the <code>.asg</code> and <code>.eval</code> directives
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(See <a href="TIC54X_002dDirectives.html#TIC54X_002dDirectives"><code>.asg</code></a>,
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See <a href="TIC54X_002dDirectives.html#TIC54X_002dDirectives"><code>.eval</code></a>.
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<p>Expansion is recursive until a previously encountered symbol is seen, at
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which point substitution stops.
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<p>In this example, x is replaced with SYM2; SYM2 is replaced with SYM1, and SYM1
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is replaced with x. At this point, x has already been encountered
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<pre class="smallexample"> .asg "x",SYM1
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.asg "SYM1",SYM2
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.asg "SYM2",x
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add x,a ; final code assembled is "add x, a"
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<p>Macro parameters are converted to subsyms; a side effect of this is the normal
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<code>as</code> ’\ARG’ dereferencing syntax is unnecessary. Subsyms
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defined within a macro will have global scope, unless the <code>.var</code>
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directive is used to identify the subsym as a local macro variable
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see <a href="TIC54X_002dDirectives.html#TIC54X_002dDirectives"><code>.var</code></a>.
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<p>Substitution may be forced in situations where replacement might be
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ambiguous by placing colons on either side of the subsym. The following
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code:
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<pre class="smallexample"> .eval "10",x
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LAB:X: add #x, a
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<p>When assembled becomes:
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<pre class="smallexample">LAB10 add #10, a
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<p>Smaller parts of the string assigned to a subsym may be accessed with
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the following syntax:
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<dt><code><code>:<var>symbol</var>(<var>char_index</var>):</code></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Evaluates to a single-character string, the character at <var>char_index</var>.
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<dt><code><code>:<var>symbol</var>(<var>start</var>,<var>length</var>):</code></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Evaluates to a substring of <var>symbol</var> beginning at <var>start</var> with
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length <var>length</var>.
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