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    Exclamation Plz Help!!!

    OK,
    I have been stuck on this one for weeks:
    I am trying to develope my own encrypter of text.
    What I need is just a few examples of how to do this.
    For example how would I do this in C++?
    Code:
    'a' = 'b'
    'b' = 't'
    /n = 'y'
    etc.......
    I want the user to be able to type in the text and have it encrypted.
    best regards,
    machewy
    Last edited by Machewy; 04-16-2003 at 09:02 AM.
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    I don't think you can do that.

    You can enter as a string, parse it, replace certain letters with others.

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    How would I do that???
    "All things come to an end"

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    String parse's and such have been covered many times before, a little research may prove to be all you need.

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    use an array

    You're doing a simple substitution cypher - been around for well over a thousand years.

    Create an array with the translation - make it as big as an ascii table. Create a loop to read in the input, convert to an ascii interger, and pull that from the char array you've set up.

    additonally build a string from the translation and then you can write it to the screen or a file.

    Translation back would work the same way - convert the chars into ascii values and use another array to pull the original characters back.

    i.e 0 = 48 = j
    j = 106 = 0

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    Use a 2d array.

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    I assume you know all about ASCII, and have an ASCII chart.

    So, you need 3 arrays:
    OrigString[]
    EncString[]
    Convert[]

    The original character becomes a pointer (or index value) for the convert array.

    From your example:
    a = 97
    b = 98
    t = 116

    And we know,
    Convert[97] = 98 (97 points to 98)
    Convert[98] = 116 (98 points to 116)
    ... You fill-in the rest.

    In general,
    EncString[n] = Convert[ OrigString[n] ]

    been around for well over a thousand years.
    Yeah, but they've only been doing it in C++ for about 100 years!

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    Unhappy

    I'm still confused.
    I got this far:
    PHP Code:
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>

    int main()
    {
     
    char OrigString[100];
     
    char EncString[100];
     
    char Convert[100];

     
    Convert[97] = 98;
     
    cin.getline(Convert100);
     
    cout<<Convert;

     
    system("PAUSE");
     return 
    0;

    What should I do???
    Can someone write me up a quick example program to use as a reference?
    Thanks
    "All things come to an end"

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    look at http://www.asciitable.com/ as you can see here ever single character has a numeric value attached to it. Now what you do it you take one character and you convert it to it's ascii value:

    Code:
    char x = '\0';
    int ascii = 0;
    
    cin.get(x);
    
    ascii = (int)x;
    so now ascii holds the numerical value for the character x. Second you need a 2d array that has first the ascii value of the first/original character as it's index and then the ascii value of the encoded character:

    Code:
    int Table[256] = { 35,
                                 67,
                                 ........
                                 79 };
    Please note that the encoded and original values were picked at random by me =].

    Now following the above code given when you do something alike:

    Code:
    char encoded = (char)Table[ascii];
    To decypher your code you can either build a new array that would have 1 stored in it's 35th element (following the above example) or you could have a for loop that goes through the original array and finds the encoded value and then uses the index as the decyphered value:

    Code:
    int Decode[256] = { ......
                                     1,   // 35th element
                                     ......
                                     2,  // 67th element
                                     ......
                                     256, // 79th element
                                     ...... };
    
    char original = (char)Decode[ (int)encoded ];
    -or-

    Code:
    for(int i = 0; Table[i] != (int)encoded; i++)
    {}
    
    char original = (char)i;
    note that the first example with a new array takes more memory and that the second example with the for loop takes more CPU time. So it is up to you to decide which you value more...

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    Thanks so much!!!!!!

    The only thing I am going to have to do now is play around with what you guys gave me.
    Anymore suggestions?
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    Originally posted by Machewy
    Thanks so much!!!!!!

    The only thing I am going to have to do now is play around with what you guys gave me.
    Anymore suggestions?
    Yes. Look up XOR, it may interest you.
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