title: Mips char array indexing with counter
body: <p>Overview of program: Input of a number 1-26, give the corresponding Capital letter too the number</p>
  
  <p>My logic: Set up an Array type "structure" using .byte with chars. have a counter going through the array. once the counter is equivenlt to the input number print out the current point at the array.</p>
  
  <p>This is a homework assignment so I'm not trying to "nudge" out the answer but guidance would be very helpful.</p>
  
  <p>This is why where I think its going wrong. When I add 1 to the address it for some reason gives me a error. But when i add 4 it works fine? A char is supposed to take only 1 bit correct? I understand that when indexing address's of ints in an array it should be by 4.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    .data
  prompt: .asciiz "Enter the value of n here: "
  larray: .byte 'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z'
      .globl main
      .text
  
  main:
      la  $t1, larray # Loads Array addresss into $t1
      li  $v0, 4      # System call for Print String
      la  $a0, prompt # Load address of prompt into $a0
      syscall         # Print the prompt message
      li  $v0, 5      # System call code for Read Integer
      syscall         # Read N into $v0
      move    $t3, $v0
      li  $t0, 0      # Loads int 0 into $t0
  
  
  
  loop:
      beq     $t0, $t3, end   # Break
      lw  $a0, ($t1)  # Loads current pointer
  
  
      addi    $t0, $t0, 1 # Adds one to $t0 (Counting up +1)
      addi    $t1, $t1, 1 # Advances to next address in the array
  
      j   loop
  
  
  end:
      li  $v0, 11     # Print at current index
      syscall
  
      li  $v0, 10     # return control to system
      syscall
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did do research on how to access the char a different way, but I don't think I can implement this way because you would need it hard coded?
  Link:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10021039/char-array-in-mips">This is the Stack Link that I found</a></p>