All I need is the al out of eax

[blinksumgreen]

I am dealing with unsigned numbers and I have done checks in my code to insure that the number entered into eax is not above 255. What I would like to do is take what is in eax and put it into dl. I thought that

mov dl, al

would do the trick, but it isn't working. When I scroll over al while in debug mode it shows the number that I want to be there, plus ' ' (quote tags) with a box inside them.

I have to do this for the assignment so there is no option of just not using dl.

Is there any way to take the first 8 bits of a 32-bit register and place them in dl?

[rxbagain]

mov dl, al is correct. What you see on the debug window is in the form of "<number> '<ascii char>'. The thing inside the single quotes is just the ascii character equivalent to the actual value.

Hope it will help you

[blinksumgreen]

Thanks. I found the reason for the error was a logic mistake in a chunk of my code.