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Task/String-length/MIPS-Assembly/string-length.mips

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+.data
+	#.asciiz automatically adds the NULL terminator character, \0 for us.
+	string: .asciiz "Nice string you got there!"
+
+.text
+main:
+	la $a1,string           #load the beginning address of the string.
+	
+loop:
+	lb $a2,($a1)            #load byte (i.e. the char) at $a1 into $a2
+	addi $a1,$a1,1          #increment $a1
+	beqz $a2,exit_procedure #see if we've hit the NULL char yet
+	addi $a0,$a0,1          #increment counter
+	j loop                  #back to start
+	
+exit_procedure:
+	li $v0,1                #set syscall to print integer
+	syscall
+	
+	li $v0,10               #set syscall to cleanly exit EXIT_SUCCESS
+	syscall