How do I write THIS assembler?

[LBSCR]

The HACK assembler is hard. How would you assemble "MD=D+1"? Basically, I don't know how to assemble instructions without whitespaces, help me please ;~;

[cadet1620]

What language are you using to write your assembler?

Basically, to parse a C-instruction you need to find the '=' and the ';' so that you can split it into destination, computation, and jump parts:

comp = instruction
dest = empty string
jump = empty string
if comp has a '=':
    i = index of '='
    dest = comp [0..i-1]
    comp = comp [i+1..]
if comp has a ';':
    i = index of ';'
    jump= comp [i+1..]
    comp = comp [0..i-1]

--Mark

[LBSCR]

Thank you!