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Unusual behavior of Simple Cipher Program

 
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If I give the input as "vasiqmz" or a word such as "x","y" then the output which I'm getting is kinda confusing....

 
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Output :
Enter the text you want to cipher.
vasiqmz
The cipher text is zewmuq(And a box symbol appears which i'm not able to print it here)

I know the reason is because of the else loop but one thing i'm not getting is..if there is no char at a given position then it should display it's value as null instead of a symbol which in case here is a box.

Any reason for that ???

Thanks for reading it....
Any comments on the program....
 
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What gets stored in the coded string when shift >= alphabets.length?
 
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Also note that it's possible the text won't be encoded at all.
 
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David Newton wrote:What gets stored in the coded string when shift >= alphabets.length?



If the IF loop is correct then nothing gets stored in that position...If nothing gets stored then that position should contain a "null" value instead of any symbol..I mean after all the default value of char is null....
 
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And what would a null character print out as?
 
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David Newton wrote:And what would a null character print out as?



Ok i get it now....if there is nothing in that position then it'll store "'\u0000'" or "0" which is basically a null value and a null value is printed out as a box symbol....

Thanks a lot for reading the program and helping me out with the problem....David.
 
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No problem--glad to help :)
 
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