I ment an encrypter. But anyways, assigning a letter to another would take a long time. I heard there was a command or something like chr$() or chr$. It chatchs all the letters in a file and turns the charaters into ASCII code instead of regular letters like 66 for a letter. I can't remember... Ah Thanks for any suggestions.

Hyif16

ASC is the function you're looking for. CHR takes an ASCII code (number) and makes it a character.

That's hardly encryption, by the way. Many of us on these board would probably realize immediately that the numbers are ASCII codes. :)

- taubz

assigning a number or another letter to a letter doesn't take that long...at least that way it would random...but yeah there probably are better ways to encrypt something

hey @taubz,
When i said about turning the letters into ASCII code i ment that i would use an eqasion to change it into diffrent letters. Eg: Turn "Hello" in to ASCII and add 34 to all the letters. Then turn it back into text and it will come out diffrently.
I never make my point in one post. ::sigh::

Hyif16

Ahha, okay.

How Do you capture all the letters remotely from a .txt file?! ahhh i cna't figure it out. If i can do that THEN i can make an encrypter. help me out. please. i can't find a tutorial that teachs you how to do this in Qbasic!.
thanks,
hyif16

Then you'll need "open" and "input #" and "get"
These should have a description in the helpfile. I haven't used basic in a long time.

RedX

I think your terminology is odd, Hyif16. People don't usually call basic file I/O "capturing letters remotely".

Sorry, lol i'm a foriner. Japanese. Do you think i am good at english? i've been studing it for 4 years.
hopefully its ok.
hyif16

If you really want some decent encryption, I would suggest taking characters from a file or textbox (that have already been typed) in large blocks of characters (rather than streamed) and mixing up their coordinates in a multi-dimensional array of characters. You might ask the user to type a block of text and then place a termination string on a line by itself if you need to use shells or consoles. This will also allow you to take characters in blocks. This is hard to break, especially if you allow the key array to change and take different numbers of characters per block rather than the same number every time. By the way, your english is certainly good enough for us to understand, and poor spelling is common anyway on message boards, lol.

"Sorry, lol i'm a foriner. Japanese. Do you think i am good at english? i've been studing it for 4 years.
hopefully its ok."

Thats perfect except that "foriner" is spelled foreigner (I think LOL). God knows I couldn't learn japanese in 10 years