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ProblemYou have just been given access to a top secret database, however the password has been sent to you by encrypting it in the following string of text: xmyaartikarosgelptwtjvbldebixgbieivbtoieewt In order to decipher the password, you will need to: 1) Extract every fourth letter of the string The solution will require the following components: |
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Solution1. The first step is to declare and initialize the necessary variables. Counter is initialized to 3, which is the index of the fourth letter. This is because we start numbering the string indices at 0, not 1. String message = "xmyaartikarosgelptwtjvbldebixgbieivbtoieewt"; String s = ""; String password = ""; int counter = 3; 2. The second step is to extract every fourth letter and append it to s using the string concatenation operation. We then increment the counter by 4 to advance to the next letter that we need. This is repeated until the end of the message is reached. while(counter < message.length) { s += message.charAt(counter); counter += 4; } 3. The counter now needs to be set to the last char in the string, for the reversal stage. counter = s.length - 1; 4. The next step is to move through the chars in s, in reverse order, and store the chars in forward order in "password". while(counter >= 0) { password += s.charAt(counter); counter--; } 5. The final section combines the last two steps: shifting each letter ahead by three letters, and alternating the cases between upper and lower case. Counter will already be set to 0 from the previous step, which is what we need. If the counter is even, we set the letter to uppercase, otherwise we leave it in lowercase. while(counter < password.length) { password(counter) += 3; if(counter % 2 == 0) { password.charAt(counter).toUpperCase(); } counter++; } 6. Now that we have deciphered the password, display it in a message dialog so we can see what it is. The final output (i.e. the password) should be "HeLlOwOrLd". JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("The password is: " + password); | ||
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