A bit of assembler advice needed

[badgermonkey]

A bit of assembler advice needed (today)

Hey all, I really should learn things as I go along.


Anyway in my writing of a little program in assembler, I've noticed I tend to use eax and ebx for most things.

This isn't a problem, but in this program I need to store a couple of user inputted strings, one a single letter and the other a proper string (Their name).


Would I have to store these in eg the ecx and edx registers, or is there a way (which I'd assume is the case) of storing them into a particular variable.

If so how would I declare an empty variable, and what command would I use to put the values into the variables.

Thanks

 

[badgermonkey]

EDIT: Ok, I've worked out that "storing" them in registers is stupid.

but do I for example use

lea variable, ebx

or

mov variable, ebx


Or something else to do this?

 

[badgermonkey]

Thanks, that helps (kind of )


Assembler is something I suck at majorly. Majorly majorly.