.bat Cypher Program

[remeng]

Hi All,

I am not sure if this is the right place to post this but what the hey. I am looking to make a fun little program that will take a sentence or a series of numbers and convert it into a substitution code that is somewhat random. For example:

If the input was say CAT, the output might be FGA or something. I was thinking that the person would need to enter a two digit number to generate the same cypher as the code was created.

For example if entered the number 21 then CAT = FGA , but if the number 10 was entered that CAT = BOB.

Then the reverse would be to decipher the code and they would need to put in the same number again to gain the clean text.

I am looking to make this in .BAT just for fun. Any ideas?

Thanks all,

Mike

 

[jges]

Not a direct answer, but you may find this thread interesting: thread68-1647831

 

[remeng]

jges,

Thanks for the link however these are two different programming languages. This wont work in .BAT as I understand it.

I have created now 75% of the program and the problem that I am working on is to import text in a .txt file as a variable so that it can be passed on later.

Any ideas on how to import the text into a .BAT variable?

The second issue that I am trying to solve is an IF statement that converts a character in a sentence into a number.

for example,

A = 1
B = 2
O = 3
Y = 4
space = 5

so if the sentence is: "A Boy" I would like it to convert to 15234

any ideas?

 

[strongm]

>This wont work in .BAT

However, this is a VBScript forum ...

>I am not sure if this is the right place to post this

Not really - on the other hand I'm not sure we have got a forum for commandline batch programming

 

[guitarzan]

Yes I don't think there is a proper forum for batch programming questions. I have seen batch file questions posted in the Windows XP forum, with some very good responses in the past, but those mostly deal with file manipulation... This question is a bit different from most batch questions.