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Learning rust using caesar cypher
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fn encrypt_decrypt(plaintext: &str, key: usize) -> String{ | |
let alphabet = "ABCDFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; | |
let plaintext = &plaintext.to_uppercase(); | |
let mut ciphertext = String::from(""); | |
//println!("{}", plaintext); | |
//MORINGA | |
for each_char in plaintext.chars(){ | |
//println!("char {}", each_char); | |
match alphabet.find(each_char) { | |
Some(index) => { | |
let char_index = (index + key) % 26; | |
let char_place = alphabet.chars().nth(char_index).unwrap(); | |
ciphertext.push(char_place); | |
}, | |
None => ciphertext.push(each_char) | |
} | |
} | |
//println!("{}", ciphertext); | |
ciphertext | |
} | |
fn main() { | |
let encrypt_key = 4; | |
let plain_text = "MORINGA"; | |
let cyphertext = encrypt_decrypt(&plain_text, encrypt_key); | |
let plain_text_copy = encrypt_decrypt(&cyphertext, 26-encrypt_key); | |
println!("{} \n{} \n{}", plain_text, cyphertext, plain_text_copy); | |
} |
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