[Exercise 03] Caesar Cipher Decoder

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You have received an encrypted message from Julius Caesar-- the message is ebiil.  You are asked to decipher the message in order to understand what Caesar trying to say to you.

Hint

Luckily, Caesar has given you a hint, he says: 'I, myself, encoded the message by shifting every word backwards by 3.' 

Solution

Write a program that receives 5 characters 'ebiil'. Then decode those characters into 5 new characters.

Example

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {


	char a;
    	char b;
	 	
	scanf("%c%c", &a, &b);
	
	//decode the message how??
	
	printf("%c%c", a,b);
	
	return 0;
}

Input

ebiil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Output

hello

** REMEMBER ** 
This is an online-compiler, don't put anything except the codes. If you want to make a comment, please use // or /* */

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Your program receives only 2 characters, and it doesn't move characters' positions.

Try to make it receive 5 characters, and move their positions forward by 3.
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This exercise expects only 'hello'. However, your code has.....

printf("Put the words you want to decode:");

Kindly consider delete this part :)
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prog.c:28:1: error: unknown type name 'INPUT'
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prog.c:32:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'OUTPUT'
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 ^~~~~~
prog.c:32:1: error: unknown type name 'OUTPUT'
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Your program can end at
  
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INPUT

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OUTPUT

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prog.c: In function 'main':
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Great job using an array and a loop. There are two mistakes found in your code. Please check
1.     printf("\n\n%s", code);  <--- in order to make it match the fixed output '\n\n' should be deleted
2.     At the end of your code, there's something missing.
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It's correct lol you can't judge me
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Well, that's because your output doesn't match with the fixed answer. Please take a look at this
printf("%c%c%c%c%c\n", a1, b1, c1, d1, e1);

Hint: You should delete something  :)

By the way, great job.
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printf("%c%c%c%c%c", a1, b1, c1, d1, e1);

How's that?
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That's correct.
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Nice, it is correct. You might be wondering why your automatically-generated score is 0.
That's because it expects its output to be only 'hello'. However, what your program showed was:
     Please input the letter to encode: ebiil
     hello

Anyway, great job. Full marks.
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Nice, it is correct. You might be wondering why your automatically-generated score is 0.
That's because it expects its output to be only 'hello'. However, what your program showed was:
     Please input the letter to encode: ebiil
     hello

Also, it's an online compiler, if you want to make a comment don't forget to use //. For example, //input ebiil
//output hello

Anyway, great job. Full marks.
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prog.c:27:1: error: unknown type name 'INPUT'
 INPUT
 ^~~~~
prog.c:30:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'OUTPUT'
 OUTPUT
 ^~~~~~
prog.c:30:1: error: unknown type name 'OUTPUT'
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Nice, it is correct. You might be wondering why your automatically-generated score is 0.
That's because it expects its output to be only 'hello'. However, what your program showed was:
     Please input the letter to encode: ebiil
     The encrypted letter is hello

Also, it's an online compiler, if you want to make a comment don't forget to use //. For example, //input ebiil
//output hello

Anyway, great job. Full marks.
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prog.c:26:1: error: unknown type name 'INPUT'
 INPUT
 ^~~~~
prog.c:29:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'OUTPUT'
 OUTPUT
 ^~~~~~
prog.c:29:1: error: unknown type name 'OUTPUT'
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Nice, it is correct. You might be wondering why your automatically-generated score is 0.
That's because it expects its output to be only 'hello'. However, what your program showed was:
     Please input the letter to encode: e b i i l
     h e l l o

Also, it's an online compiler, if you want to make a comment don't forget to use //. For example, //input ebiil
//output hello

Anyway, great job. Full marks.
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prog.c:25:1: error: unknown type name 'INPUT'
 INPUT
 ^~~~~
prog.c:28:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'OUTPUT'
 OUTPUT
 ^~~~~~
prog.c:28:1: error: unknown type name 'OUTPUT'
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prog.c: In function 'main':
prog.c:10:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'scanf' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
     scanf("%c %c %c %c %c", &lettera, &letterb, &letterc, &letterd, &lettere);
     ^~~~~
prog.c:10:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'scanf'
prog.c:10:5: note: include '<stdio.h>' or provide a declaration of 'scanf'
prog.c:17:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'printf' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
     printf("%c %c %c %c %c", lettera, letterb, letterc, letterd, lettere);
     ^~~~~~
prog.c:17:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'printf'
prog.c:17:5: note: include '<stdio.h>' or provide a declaration of 'printf'
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