On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:09:23 GMT, Herbert Kleebauer
wrote:

On 24.09.2018 10:17, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:32:43 GMT, "Kerr-Mudd,John"
wrote:

I wasn't coding well last night

And also this morning?

The search terminates at the first space, independent
whether it is in or outside a quoted string.


mov ah,0 ; inquotes_flag off
nextc:
lodsb
cmp al,0 ; null terminates
je havestr
cmp al,'"'
jne notaquote
xor ah,1 ; toggle inquotes_flag
jne nextc ; in string, carry on
notaquote:
cmp al,0x20 ; space ends unquoted string
jne nextc
havestr:


Ah; fair enough. So much for me "improving" your code!

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