How to 'move' a character?

[AxlD]

Hello and bravo for the great work you have done in this site!

I have an exercise in C. The user has to type a character and the program will move the character X positions to right. For instance, if the user types 'A' and the X=4 then the character will become 'E'. But I have no idea how to move a character. I guess it has to do something with the ASCII number of the character but I don't know how to do it...

Can anyone help me?

Thank you and excuse my english...

[kmhosny]

you can get the ascii of the character by casting it and then add the moving value you want

int value=(int)'A';//get the ascii equivalent to A
char moved=(char)(value+4);//get the char equivalent to ascii of A +4

[AxlD]

Of course! Thank you so much! You helped me greatly!

[kmhosny]

you welcome

[AxlD]

Well let's expand it a little, I wrote this program:

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
    char moved,c;
    int x, value;

    printf("Type a letter \n");
    scanf("%c", &c);
    printf("Type the number of positions for the letter to be moved \n");
    scanf("%d", &x);

    value= (int) c;
    moved=(char)(value+x);

    printf("the new letter is %c \n", moved);

    return 0;
}

What I want to do now is to read a string and convert each letter of the string x positions. Like a cryprography or something! Can anyone help?

Again thank you!

[kmhosny]

#include<cstring>
you can read the string by

char c[50]={0};//array of characters of size 50 initialized with 0's
scanf("%s",c);
for(int i=0; i<strlen(c);i++)
{
   int value= (int) c[i];
   char moved=(char)(value+x);
}

}

[AxlD]

OMG it works great!
Thank you very much!
Here's the code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<cstring>

int main()
{
    char moved;
    int x, value, i;
    char sentence[15]={0};

    printf("Type a sentence \n");
    scanf("%s", &sentence);
    printf("Type the number of position for each letter to be moved \n");
    scanf("%d", &x);

    for (i=0; i<strlen(sentence); i++)
    {
        value=(int) sentence[i];
        moved=(char) (value+x);
        printf("%c", moved);
    }

    return 0;
}

Just for the record I noticed that if I type 2 words (with a space between the words I mean) the results make no sense. Can I fix that?

[kmhosny]

when you type more than a word separated with " " spaces it ignores what's next to that space as scanf uses space as delimiter -to be able to decide the end of the stream-
you can type instead of scanf
scanf("&#37;[^\n]",c);
note: to make it clear the %[^\n] tells the scanf to ignore any character taken as input except the one in the [] which is \n so when it meets a \n it will stop taking the input.
but in this case it's vulnerable to attack such as buffer overflow since you are making a simple cryptography program you should check this out

[AxlD]

Again you're great! I'm on my first steps to programming so I'll be back with more sophisticated questions. Till then!

[kmhosny]

till we meet again