FASM. How to declare a procedure with an argument - a string?

Question

assembler

How to declare a procedure with a string argument?
I do so

proc getel text:DB
endp

but Error: extra characters on line
I'm writing on Windows, x32, FASM IDE

Answer 1

How to declare a procedure with a string argument?

This is assembler, what is the "string argument"? Everything is registers or words in memory.

proc getel text
endp

text is a pointer to your string.
fasm has a bunch of examples where you can see how things are done there.