How to write/read strings EEPROM/LCD

[g-hoot]

"the only thing you have to keep in your PIC is the EEPROM start address of your string"

Ahh, I think it's starting to sink in to my thick melon. What I was trying to do was set up the alphabet in upper and lower case, and numbers and a few other characters in eeprom, and then call each one individually. I noticed in many places that people were looping through like this:
for i = 0 to 7
read i, LCDtext(i)
next i

but that wouldn't work with the alphabet deal since I had to jump around to different, non-sequential eeprom locations.
So, what you are saying is that I would save each actual string in eeprom and then just give the loop the starting location of the string. I'm only using about 16 locations of eeprom right now, and this chip has 256, so that leaves me enough room for about thirty 8 character strings, so that should help a bunch. I'll give that a shot tonight.
Thanks all,
Gary

[mister_e]

can you post your text string here?

maybe there's some word you can use from one and merge into another... but will this worth?

[g-hoot]

can you post your text string here?

maybe there's some word you can use from one and merge into another... but will this worth?

Hey Steve,
I think you have got me thinking enough that I can get enough space free to add what I need. The code is pretty long so I just emailed you the code also, just to take a quick look at it if you want. Please don't spend too much time on it. Thank you very much for taking the valuable time to look at it.
Gary