some help with math

[richard]

I will see if I can explain it

pic18 pgm mem is stored as words , so if the bytes are not an even number the last byte is padded with 00


if we store this @ db "say",34,"hello",34,0

then its stored like this lst file extract

00014A 6173 2279 6568 db "say",34,"hello",34,0 ; note order looks reversed but its really lowbyte first
6C6C 226F 0000

when readcode reads it back

its lowbyte, highbyte

so the string is returned in order as say"hello",0