Thread: Simple Caesar cyptography

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    Simple Caesar cyptography

    Hey guys I am working on implementing a simple cryptography program called Caesar. I got this program to work perfectly when I was writing a function to handle the cryptography and just declaring the string that I wanted to encrypt and the integer I wanted to move the letters by to encrypt it. maybe you can help me out and tell me what I am doing wrong here. I am just trying to get the user to enter the key into main and then be prompted for the string to encrypt.

    I ended up with a segmentation fault.. I have absolutely no idea what I am looking at but when I ran GDP I get this

    #0 0x001bd283 in ____strtol_l_internal (nptr=0x0, endptr=0x0, base=10, group=0,
    loc=0x3123a0) at strtol_l.c:298..


    Anyways here is my code..

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <cs50.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    
    int main (int argc, char *argv[])
    {
    
        // turn string k into int k
        int k = atoi(argv[1]);
        k = k % 26;
        
        int i = 0;
        
        // prompt user for string
        string word = GetString();
        
        // below here all works fine when I had it as a stand alone function that I 
        // passed arguments to from main.. should encrypt by "k" letters
        while (word[i] != '\0')
        {
           if (word[i] >= 'a' && word[i] <= 'z')
           {
               word[i] = (word[i] + k - 97) % 26 + 97; 
               i++;
           }
           
          else  if (word[i] >= 'A' && word[i] <= 'Z')
            {
                word[i] = (word[i] + k - 65) % 26 + 65;
                i++;
            }
            else
                i++;
        }
        word[i] = '\0';
        
        printf("%s\n", word); 
            
    }

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    It's possible that GetString() is not putting a '\0' at the end of you string.
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    ok so I replaced the getString portion of the code with simply declaring a string called "word". That way I could determine if that was the issue. Apparently it is not because I am still getting a segmentation fault. So it has nothing to do with GetString. Instead it has do with "k". Can someone please tell em what is wrong with how I have written the main function and k?
    Last edited by sdbuilt; 10-01-2012 at 10:09 PM.

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    I figured it out never mind. Anyone know how to delete a post?

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    You do not want to delete this thread, because it might help someone

    Post your solution for everyone who is having the same problem
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    You don't. It is not your place to decide that nobody else should benefit from finding the same problem and solution at a later date.
    The more courteous posters actualy post what the cause and solution was.
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    sorry I just read this.. the solution was that I was not inputting the initial values into the main function right. I thought that I type ./caesar and press enter and then it will prompt me for the input to main. I did not realize I had to type it like ./caesar input.

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