public/subjects/rot

rotate

Instructions

In this exercise, if you do not know about it already, you will learn about the rotational cipher "ROT13".

A ROT13 on the Latin alphabet would be as follows:

• Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

• Cipher: nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm

Your purpose in this exercise is to create a similar rotate function that is a better version of the ROT13 cipher.

Your function will receive a string and a number and it will rotate each letter of that string by the number of times settled by the second argument towards the right, or towards the left if the number is negative.

Your function should only rotate letters. If the string includes punctuation and numbers they will remain the same.

Notions

• patterns

Expected functions

pub fn rotate(input: &str, key: i8) -> String {

}

Usage

Here is a program to test your function.

use rot::*;

fn main() {

    println!("The letter \"a\" becomes: {}", rotate("a", 26));
    println!("The letter \"m\" becomes: {}", rotate("m", 0));
    println!("The letter \"m\" becomes: {}", rotate("m", 13));
    println!("The letter \"a\" becomes: {}", rotate("a", 15));
    println!("The word \"MISS\" becomes: {}", rotate("MISS", 5));
    println!(
        "The decoded message is: {}",
        rotate("Gur svir obkvat jvmneqf whzc dhvpxyl.", 13)
    );
    println!(
        "The decoded message is: {}",
        rotate("Mtb vznhpqd ifky ozrunsl ejgwfx ajc", 5)
    );
    println!(
        "Your cypher wil be: {}",
        rotate("Testing with numbers 1 2 3", 4)
    );
    println!("Your cypher wil be: {}", rotate("Testing", -14));
    println!("The letter \"a\" becomes: {}", rotate("a", -1));
}

And its output:

$ cargo run
The letter "a" becomes: a
The letter "m" becomes: m
The letter "m" becomes: z
The letter "a" becomes: p
The word "MISS" becomes: RNXX
The decoded message is: The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
The decoded message is: Ryg aesmuvi nkpd tewzsxq jolbkc foh
Your cypher wil be: Xiwxmrk amxl ryqfivw 1 2 3
Your cypher wil be: Fqefuzs
The letter "a" becomes: z
$