Its funny how you guys call them assemblers and I call them compilers. They seem to be similar.

I use Qbasic for my programming for hardware, and when an EXE is made in it, then it is "compiled".

I guess the only difference is that an assembler creates just raw machine code from code.

And yes, it still helps if we know what "program" you are using to process the code that you (the OP) provided.

I was looking at the code from a logical standpoint without consideration to any assembler.

So I guess most assemblers do 2 passes in assembling the code. One pass for EQUate searching and another one for code validation.

You see, I made my own assembler (which to you is substandard) which processes code line for line.