Thread: help using strings and mapping

i need help understanding the logic and what i am supposed to do for my assignment. I have done part one and now part two is the following "

The second part of the file contains the text to be encrypted. There is no limit on the number of lines, but no line will be over 80 characters long. Each alphabetic character (upper or lower case) will be replaced according to the cipher key selected based on the random number generation and the first 5 lines of the input file. Both the uppercase ‘A’ and the lower case ‘a’ are the first element of the alphabet and will both be replaced by the lower case letter that appeared first on the line selected for the cipher key (and now should be in the 0th element of the array). Any non-alphabetic character that appears on that line will just be maintained without any modification."

Here is the example:
If the agreed upon Key is
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
i y k w v u t s a g p o c n l x r z h r b e d m f j

And the original message is
Hi, Jan

The encrypted message is
sa, gin


is what I am thinking on the right track. First check to see if the character in original message is a letter using isalpha then change to lower case using tolower and then mapp the characters which is where I am stuck. here is the code i have so far (as a function to be called in main)

Code:

void encrypt(char secret[],char message[], char coded[]){ 
   int count, next; 
   char letter; 
   for(count = 0,count < MAXLEN,count++){        /* CHECK TO SEE IF LETTER */ 
      letter = fgets(message,MAXLEN,stdin);         /* GET LETTER FROM MESSAGE */ 
      if(isalpha(letter)){                                             /* CHANGE TO LOWER CASE */ 
         for(next = 0; message[next] != '\0';next++){ 
             message[next] = tolower(message[next]); 
         } 
      } 
   }

and MAXLEN is 81

Well, your syntax is all wrong for one, so it's a guess as to whether you understand what you've written. For instance, fgets() does not return a character.

You didn't post all the information to answer your question about the part you are stuck on. You show that zero maps to i. But am I to assume that 'A' maps to zero?

Todd

oh ok. yes A maps to 0. so fgets gets an entire string if it'n not a character. do i use getchar()? what do i need to fix

Code:

this is the main function
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

#define MAXLEN 81
#define ALPHABETSIZE 26

void getKey(char [],int *);
void encrypt(char[], char[], char[]);

int main(){
    char cryptArr[ALPHABETSIZE];
    char original[MAXLEN];
    char encrypted[MAXLEN] = "";
    int keyNum;
    int i = 0;
    getKey(cryptArr,&keyNum);
    printf("selected key #%d\n",keyNum);
    while (fgets(original,MAXLEN,stdin)){
        encrypt(cryptArr, original, encrypted);
        printf("%s",encrypted);
        i++;
    } 
    return 0;
}

Code:

void encrypt(char secret[],char message[], char coded[])
{ 
   int count, next; 
   char letter; 

   for(count = 0,count < MAXLEN,count++)
   {
       letter = tolower(message[count]);
       if(isalpha(letter))
       { /*Do your encryption here; */ }  
   }
}

ssharish

oh ok..thanks....that makes sense. what is the logic or how to I go about doing the encryption. i was thinking that i have to mapp the index with the key. but i'm not sure where to start. i know that if 'a' maps to index 0, then every mapping is something minus 'a'. not to sure

sorry , i'm a beginner, can you explain what that line means

Code:

if(isalpha(letter))
{
    message[count] = coded['a' - letter]; 
}

is it saying that the 'a' minus letter position in the coded array is then stored in message array?

if u can think of

coded[0] = 'i';
coded[1] = 'y';
coded[2] = 'k';
.
.
and soo on
So in place of 'a' u want i and in place of 'b' u want y and so on

Code:

coded[letter - 'a'];

So what this does is indexes through coded array to get the right char. So if the letter had 'b'.
letter - 'a'
The chars will be converted to their ascii values and the gets difference. So
98 -97 = 1 which is nothing but coded[i] ==> 'y'

ssharish

OK That makes sense. thanks. now where does the third parameter come in. i take in three arrays. secret[] is the key, message[] is the original input that needs to be encrpted, and coded is the message encrypted.

does this work

Code:

void encrypt(char secret[],char message[],char coded[]){    
  int count; 
  char letter;     
  for(count = 0;count < MAXLEN;count++){     
    letter = message[count];   
    if(isalpha(letter)){                        /*CHECK TO SEE IF LETTER*/      
      message[count] = tolower(message[count]); /*CHANGE TO LOWER CASE*/ 
      message[count] = secret[letter - 'a'];    /*START OF ENCRYPTION*/     
      coded[count] = message[count]; 
    }    
  }  
}

ok. can you look at my program. my program generates a random number 1-5, reads the input text of five lines and the original message, the key number generated corresponds to one of the five lines to use to encrypt the message. then the message is ecrypted.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

#define MAXLEN 81
#define ALPHABETSIZE 26

void getKey(char [],int *);
void encrypt(char[], char[], char[]);

int main(){
    char cryptArr[ALPHABETSIZE];
    char original[MAXLEN];
    char encrypted[MAXLEN] = "";
    int keyNum;
    int i = 0;
    getKey(cryptArr,&keyNum);
    printf("selected key #%d\n",keyNum);
    while (fgets(original,MAXLEN,stdin)){
        encrypt(cryptArr, original, encrypted);
        printf("%s",encrypted);
        i++;
    } 
    return 0;
}  

 void getKey(char secret[], int *keycode){
    int count, keynum, randkey;  
    int cycle = 0;
    char temparr[ALPHABETSIZE + 2];  
    srand(time(NULL)); 
    randkey = rand();  
    keynum = randkey % 5 + 1;      /* RANGE CHECK */  
    for(count = 0;count < 5;count++){  
       fgets(temparr,ALPHABETSIZE + 2,stdin);  
       if (count == keynum){ 
          while(cycle < ALPHABETSIZE){ 
          secret[cycle]=temparr[cycle]; 
          }  
       } 
       *keycode = keynum;  
    } 
} 

void encrypt(char secret[],char message[],char coded[]){    
  int count; 
  char letter;     
  for(count = 0;count < MAXLEN;count++){     
    letter = message[count];   
    if(isalpha(letter)){ 
      message[letter] = tolower(message[letter]); 
      message[letter] = secret[letter - 'a'];
      coded[letter] = message[letter]; 
    }    
  }  
}