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Coded Crossword 3 (Posted on 2020-02-21) Difficulty: 4 of 5
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|9  |8  |12 |4  |   |18 |13 |25 |18 |   |17 |19 |4  |18 |3  |
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|16 |14 |4  |17 |   |1  |25 |26 |2  |   |2  |18 |1  |9  |18 |
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|19 |4  |11 |19 |   |9  |18 |2  |14 |   |18 |3  |1  |4  |26 |
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|   |   |   |4  |22 |4  |   |   |   |18 |24 |4  |   |   |   |
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|20 |8  |1  |26 |18 |   |4  |26 |18 |9  |   |17 |3  |8  |15 |
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|18 |26 |4  |   |3  |16 |26 |18 |20 |9  |4  |   |18 |6  |4  |
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|26 |4  |14 |8  |   |20 |18 |3  |4  |   |3  |8  |14 |4  |9  |
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|   |   |   |9  |4  |4  |   |   |   |7  |25 |2  |   |   |   |
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|21 |18 |2  |14 |17 |   |4  |24 |4  |4  |   |4  |9  |18 |2  |
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|18 |15 |4  |   |17 |19 |26 |16 |23 |4  |17 |   |18 |14 |8  |
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|14 |8  |19 |4  |   |4  |26 |2  |4  |   |24 |18 |24 |4  |26 |
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|   |   |   |26 |18 |2  |   |   |   |10 |18 |24 |   |   |   |
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|1  |8  |17 |8  |3  |   |5  |18 |14 |4  |   |24 |8  |4  |19 |
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|4  |12 |18 |14 |4  |   |18 |15 |18 |26 |   |9  |16 |3  |4  |
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|4  |18 |19 |4  |2  |   |3  |18 |22 |8  |   |4  |9  |17 |4  |
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Solution manual solution with computer assistance for making substitutions | Comment 1 of 4
The following program reads in the html that's within the pre tags of the source, converts the integers to the corresponding letter of the alphabet and then shows the cypher text on the left side of a DOSBox-simulated DOS screen, and the plain text on the right, with hyphens in place of letters not yet decoded. It then accepts keystrokes in pairs: cyphertext then plaintext. All substitutions are made onto the plaintext grid.

Due to the ad hoc nature of the program, tests to assure against double assignments of letters were not included.

At the end, when the user is satisfied it looks correct, pressing ESC and then P, creates a file with the cypher text followed by the plaintext.  This file follows the program listing.

DIM grid$(15, 15), grid2$(15, 15)
alpha$ = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"

OPEN "codedc~1.txt" FOR INPUT AS #1
DO
   LINE INPUT #1, l$
   IF INSTR(l$, "|") THEN
     row = row + 1: col = 0
     DO
       ix = INSTR(l$, "|")
       ix2 = INSTR(ix + 1, l$, "|")
       IF ix2 = 0 THEN EXIT DO
       col = col + 1
       ltrNo = VAL(MID$(l$, ix + 1, ix2 - ix1 - 1))
       IF ltrNo > 0 THEN
         grid$(row, col) = MID$(alpha$, ltrNo, 1)
       ELSE
         grid$(row, col) = " "
       END IF
       l$ = MID$(l$, ix2)
     LOOP UNTIL LTRIM$(l$) = ""
   END IF
LOOP UNTIL EOF(1)

DO
   CLS
   FOR row = 1 TO 15
      FOR col = 1 TO 15
        PRINT grid$(row, col); " ";
      NEXT
      PRINT
   NEXT

   FOR row = 1 TO 15
      FOR col = 1 TO 15
        LOCATE row, col * 2 + 48
        IF grid$(row, col) <> " " AND grid2$(row, col) = "" THEN
          PRINT "-"
        ELSE
          PRINT grid2$(row, col); " ";
        END IF
      NEXT
      PRINT
   NEXT

   DO
     a$ = INKEY$
   LOOP UNTIL a$ > ""
   IF a$ = CHR$(27) THEN EXIT DO

   a$ = UCASE$(a$)
   IF a$ >= "A" AND a$ <= "Z" THEN
      DO
        b$ = INKEY$
      LOOP UNTIL b$ > ""
      b$ = UCASE$(b$)
      IF b$ >= "A" AND b$ <= "Z" OR b$ = " " THEN
        FOR row = 1 TO 15
        FOR col = 1 TO 15
          IF grid$(row, col) = a$ THEN grid2$(row, col) = LTRIM$(b$)
        NEXT
        NEXT
      END IF
   END IF


LOOP

DO
  a$ = INKEY$
LOOP UNTIL a$ = CHR$(27) OR UCASE$(a$) = "P"
IF UCASE$(a$) = "P" THEN

OPEN "codecros.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #2

   FOR row = 1 TO 15
      FOR col = 1 TO 15
        PRINT #2, grid$(row, col); " ";
      NEXT
      PRINT #2,
   NEXT
   PRINT #2,

   FOR row = 1 TO 15
      FOR col = 1 TO 15
        IF grid$(row, col) <> " " AND grid2$(row, col) = "" THEN
          PRINT #2, "- ";
        ELSE
          PRINT #2, RIGHT$("  " + grid2$(row, col) + " ", 2);
        END IF
      NEXT
      PRINT #2,
   NEXT
  CLOSE

END IF



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Both NABLA and ERAL are a bit obscure, but it looks like the correct substitutions were made.

  Posted by Charlie on 2020-02-22 14:49:53
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