Caesar Cipher Issue

[full goblet]

Hi y'all, can someone please help me with the following problem? I must be doing something wrong as I don't get lowercase characters...

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[full goblet]

Here's my answer, I get "TU," which supposedly is wrong

For reference: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_8859.asp, thanks in advance

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[narrow sierra]

are you sure you didn't have a typo in the input? I got the same thing

[full goblet]

No typo

The thing is, I would just go with TU if it didn't specify in the question that I must obtain lower case characters

But it does

Maybe it's a question of "looping" the letters?

[narrow sierra]

that threw me off too, but the input string is explicitly captials

[full goblet]

I mean, there are 26 lower case letters in the alphabet

[narrow sierra]

same number of upper case

[full goblet]

Yeah I know

If the plaintext was "y," with k = 20, instead of heading to the upper case letters, maybe we can just "loop" back into the lower case letters? The ciphertext hence being "s"

Does this help at all?

In this situation

[narrow sierra]

I was under the impression that's already what was expected

since that's how caesar ciphers work

[full goblet]

Right

Strange

[full goblet]

Can't I just remove the + 'a' - 'a'?

@narrow sierra

char Shifted = 'a' + (UserInput - 'a' + ShiftAmount) % 26; = char Shifted = (UserInput + ShiftAmount) % 26;

Is this wrong

[narrow sierra]

yes, there's paste error

[narrow sierra]

no, because you want the modulo to be applied before "shifting" the values back into the alphabet

'a' is 96 under ASCII, so doing math modulo 26 isn't going to get you a letter

gotta shift it down so you're working with 0-25, do the cipher, then shift it back up

[full goblet]

Oh makes sense

So we're shifting by 'a' to work with (0, 25) interval

?

[narrow sierra]

yes

[full goblet]

Thanks