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Hi,
I need to write a function that would scramble the alphabet (change the positions of random letters). I've written one but it's not working, and every time I change something seemingly irrelevant, I get different (always wrong) output..
Could anyone please help?

Thanks
Linette

ive done one like this up at school, but the problem is a couple of the letters are weird lookin characters like ^&\ and stuff like that because what i did was something like this:


#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>

int main()
{
ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;
char ch;

infile.open("A:/file.txt"); //letters you want scrambled here
outfile.open("A:/scrambledfile.txt"); //use any .txt file

while(! infile.fail())
{
infile.get(ch);
if (ch==32||ch=='\n') //if its a space or endline
{
cout<<ch;
outfile<<ch;
}
else
{
ch-=2;
cout<<ch;
outfile<<ch;
}
}
outfile.close();
infile.close();

cout<<endl<<"Complete..."<<endl;

return 0;
}



ok, theres a scramble program and it will scramble your file and it will look all funny...

to unscramble it you could change:

infile.open("scrambledfile.txt");
outfile.open("descrambledfile.txt");

and ch-=2; to ch+=2;

yea i know the site says we wont make you your whole program, but i already made this one so im just helping...

and i like to program

hope that helps some...hey with that you could send messages to your friend and he can unscramble it...very secretive...

edit<< i just re-read your post and it seems my program has nothing to do with what you want.. LOL
Paro