title: MIPS Assembly - String (ASCII) Instructions
body: <p>I am writing an assembler in C for MIPS assembly (so it converts MIPS assembly to machine code).</p>
  
  <p>Now MIPS has three different instructions: R-Type, I-Type and J-Type. However, in the <code>.data</code>. section, we might have something like <code>message: .asciiz "hello world"</code>. In this case, how would we convert an ASCII string into machine code for MIPS?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>