Creating an Encoder cause I'm bored. I have a problem. I ask for the users input to a variable called %Sentence% But what I'm struggling to do is to change each letter. Basically i want the user to enter a sentence, Then when they Press enter, the program will Change each letter to another letter. For example User enters : Hello world Output is : Ifmmp xpsme That is every letter moved up in the alphabet 1 place. So the batch will encode it by algorithm. Thing is. I have no idea how to extract each letter from the variable and change it. I'll also be decoding it too but once i got this code i should be able to reverse it easy. Any ideas ? ****************************************** MSN = HardstyleMatt@hotmail.co.uk Need help? Just ask. :) ******************************************

I started thinking and to get this done, I'm thinking you need to break your sentences down by the letter and the convert it and re-assemble. The following is what I've come up with so far. . . I got it to the point that it breaks it down by letter then assigns each letter a number, which you should be able to use on the alphabet to change the letter, but I can't get the variable modifier to work and grab what would be the next letter in the alphabet. So this is what I have so far, but it's broke and I can't figure out why it's not working @echo off SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set Alpha=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA set Alpha=%Alpha%abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza set /p sentance=Enter your sentance: set /a i = -1 :start set /a i += 1 For /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ("!sentance:~%i%,1!") do ( if [%%a]==[] echo. & goto Start set v=%%a For %%b in (A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do ( set /a Count+=1 if "%%b"=="!v!" ( Set /A Letter=!Count!+0 )) Echo %Alpha:~!Letter!,1% set Count= set Letter= goto start ) set i=

Thanks for replying. I have no idea either, I'm not as advanced in this as you lol. I can see how it works. Couldn't you have each letter Assigned a number in a var. Then as the code converts it to a number, it should be able to add 1 then display the letter corresponding to that number. Like... @ECHO OFF SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion Set A=1 Set B=2 Set C=3 ..etc Then as your code converts it to a number, it can then add 1, then display the letter. If this sounds like utter rubbish it's cause im not too good at this lol. Just an idea :-) ****************************************** MSN = HardstyleMatt@hotmail.co.uk Need help? Just ask. :) ******************************************

It's worth a try