Re: Any way to make this code more compact, and/or be able to change at runtime?

From:
 Protoman <Protoman2050@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:15:00 -0700
Message-ID:
<1183432500.275696.21650@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
On 2 Jul, 20:10, Robert Bauck Hamar <roberth+n...@ifi.uio.no> wrote:

Protoman wrote:

I've written this program that simulates a 36 character, 10 rotor
reciprocal rotor cipher, w/ a plugboard. Any way I can make the
plugboard function more compact and/or be able to change the mapping
at runtime?


In this situation, a switch might be more compact:

switch (Char) {
case 'A': return '0';
case 'B': return 'Q';
...

}

If you want to change at runtime:
#include <map>

class Enigma {
 std::map<char, char> plug;
public:
 char plugboard(char Char) {
   return plug[Char];
 }
...

};

--
rbh


Oh, and the encrypt() doesn't work right...it just returns the first
char of the cleartext:

string Enigma::Encrypt(const string& cleartext)
{
string ciphertext;
ciphertext.resize(cleartext.size());
unsigned int i=0;
for(;i<cleartext.length();i++)
{
int val=Rotor::CharacterMap(plugboard(cleartext[i]));
if (val<36)
{
char val1 = R1.GetCharacterIndex(val);
int val2 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val1);
char val3 = R2.GetCharacterIndex(val2);
int val4 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val3);
char val5 = R3.GetCharacterIndex(val4);
int val6 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val5);
char val7 = R4.GetCharacterIndex(val6);
int val8 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val7);
char val9=R5.GetCharacterIndex(val8);
int val10 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val9);
char val11=R6.GetCharacterIndex(val10);
int val12=Rotor::CharacterMap(val11);
char val13=R7.GetCharacterIndex(val12);
int val14=Rotor::CharacterMap(val13);
char val15=R8.GetCharacterIndex(val14);
int val16=Rotor::CharacterMap(val15);
char val17=R9.GetCharacterIndex(val16);
int val18=Rotor::CharacterMap(val17);
char val19=R10.GetCharacterIndex(val18);
int val20=Rotor::CharacterMap(val19);
char val21 = Enigma::Reflector[val20];
int val22 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val21);
char val23 = R10.GetCharacterInverse(val22);
int val24 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val23);
char val25 = R9.GetCharacterInverse(val24);
int val26 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val25);
char val27 = R8.GetCharacterInverse(val26);
int val28 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val27);
char val29 = R7.GetCharacterInverse(val28);
int val30 = Rotor::CharacterMap(val29);
char val31 = R6.GetCharacterInverse(val30);
int val32=Rotor::CharacterMap(val31);
char val33=R5.GetCharacterIndex(val32);
int val34=Rotor::CharacterMap(val33);
char val35=R4.GetCharacterIndex(val34);
int val36=Rotor::CharacterMap(val35);
char val37=R3.GetCharacterIndex(val36);
int val38=Rotor::CharacterMap(val37);
char val39=R2.GetCharacterIndex(val38);
int val40=Rotor::CharacterMap(val39);
char val41=R1.GetCharacterIndex(val40);
ciphertext[i] = plugboard(val41);
R1.AdvanceRotor(1);
if((R1.GetSteps()%36)==0)
{
R2.AdvanceRotor(1);
if((R2.GetSteps()%36)==0)
{
R3.AdvanceRotor(1);
if((R3.GetSteps()%36)==0)
{
R4.AdvanceRotor(1);
if((R4.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R5.AdvanceRotor(1);
{
if((R5.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R6.AdvanceRotor(1);
{
if((R6.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R7.AdvanceRotor(1);
{
if((R7.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R8.AdvanceRotor(1);
{
if((R8.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R9.AdvanceRotor(1);
{
if((R9.GetSteps()%36)==0)
R10.AdvanceRotor(1);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
} // problem #2 missing brace
else {ciphertext[i] = cleartext[i];}
}
return ciphertext;
}
}

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