char * cipher (how do i use)

I am trying to do this assignment for school. We were given a class that we have to use for our decryption program. I have created the program without the class first...and then i plan to adapt it to this class. The problem is I have no idea how you use it. I know it is a pointer and that it will hold only one character. Any other examples or ideas on how to use it would be appreciated. Also, I would ask my teacher...but the problem is that the teachers are on strike at the moment and there is no way to contact them.

Here is the class we were given...there are no methods in it for the moment:

Code:

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class cCIPHER
{
        private:  char * cipher; //encoded text
                      char * plain;  //decoded text
                      int offset;        //decryption key
        public:
}

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If any of you could do like a little example on how to use one of them that would be great.

Thanks for any help,

...Dan

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Originally Posted by Dan17

Also, I would ask my teacher...but the problem is that the teachers are on strike at the moment and there is no way to contact them.

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Are you kidding? Ask for your money back. Or, if it's a public school...well, that's what you get when you ask for government education.

As you've figured out, you can't really use that class yet. I'm guessing it's your job to implement some methods on it? You should do a board search for pointers on pointers, or just check out the FAQ.

that can't be the entire class... there's no public members for you to use... unless I'm reading it wrong...

oh i just didnt add them in. I know how to do methods and that I just didnt include that part of the code. I was just a bit unsure on how to use those variables. But i think that FAQ that pianorain posted will help a bit. I've used pointers before it's just we havent gone and used them in a class. I'm unsure how to assign a value to it. If anyone can post an example of that I think that will point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

...Dan