From: "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL>
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"Nate Eldredge" <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu> wrote:
> "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL> writes:
>
> > > Maybe I'll try coding up a multi-rot program. Good way
> > > to kill an hour.
> >
> > I just did. It handles forward and backward rotation
> > in the ASCII alphabet (upper and lower case).
> > Anyone see any glaring "issues" in this program?
> > I've already tried it with my tiny test suite
> > (hal <--> ibm, two passes of rot13 on several files).
>
> Think you've reinvented the wheel.

No, just the secret decoder ring.

> `man caesar' on the nearest BSD-heritage Unix box.

But does it accept (and do the right thing with) negative ahzoref?
I may add a feature to mine that lets it use a shifting key
hello world
12345 6789a
igopt bvzun