In the previous chapter, we used strings with implicit lengths, which means that these strings are terminated by a null byte. In this chapter, we will compare strings with implicit lengths and strings with explicit lengths.
Implicit Length
Instead of matching characters, we will look for characters that differ. Listing 32-1 shows the example code we will discuss.
; sse_string2_imp.asm
; compare strings implicit length
extern printf
section .data
string1 db "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy"
db " river",10,0
string2 db "the quick brown fox jumps ...
