Contributor: EDDY THILLEMAN { I needed a routine to convert a byte value into a string with leading zeros. > So I made one in BASM: Byte2lzStr. If you want, include this in SWAG. } var s: string; tel, n : byte; procedure Byte2lzStr( n, width: byte; var str: string ); assembler; { Byte to string with leading zeros } asm std { string operations backwards } mov al, [n] { numeric value to convert } mov cl, [width] { width of str } xor ch, ch { clear ch } les di, str { adress of str } mov [di], cl { length of str } add di, cx { start with last char str } @start: jcxz @exit { done? } aam { divide al by 10 } add al, 30h { convert remainder to char } stosb { store digit } xchg al, ah { swap remainder and quotient } dec cl { count down } jmp @start { next digit } @exit: end { Byte2lzStr }; begin randomize; for tel := 1 to 24 do begin n := random( 256 ); Byte2lzStr( n, 5, s ); writeln( tel:2,': ', n:3,' ', s,' [',length(s),']' ); end; end.