align 8   ;aligns "Days_Of_The_Week" to the next 256-byte boundary. The low byte of "Sunday" will be at memory location &XX00.
          ;this simplifies the lookup process significantly.
Days_Of_The_Week:
    word Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday

Sunday:
    byte "Sunday",0
Monday:
    byte "Monday",0
Tuesday:
    byte "Tuesday",0
Wednesday:
    byte "Wednesday",0
Thursday:
    byte "Thursday",0
Friday:
    byte "Friday",0
Saturday:
    byte "Saturday",0

;This example will load Friday.
ld hl,Days_Of_The_Week  ;get base address of table. (Thanks to the align 8, we know that L = 0.)
ld a,5                  ;0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ... 5 = Friday, 6 = Saturday
add a                   ;Multiply A by 2 (this is faster than SLA A. RLCA would have also worked here)
ld L,a                  ;since the table was page-aligned it is sufficient to load A directly into L to properly index the table.
ld e,(hl)               ;get the low byte into E
inc hl                  ;increment HL to high byte
ld d,(hl)               ;get the high byte into D

;now DE contains the pointer to "Friday"
ex de,hl                ;my PrintString routine takes the pointer in HL as the argument so we need to swap DE with HL.
call PrintString        ;prints a null-terminated string to the screen.
ret                     ;return to basic