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C++ Cipher code

//============================================================================
// Name : AT2.cpp
// Author : AAron Metcalfe
// Version : 2
// Copyright : Your copyright notice
// Description : Caesar Cipher decryption
//============================================================================
#include iostream>
#include cstring>
#include string>
#include fstream>
#include cstdlib>
#include "header.hpp"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
std::string file_text_as_upper;
std::ifstream file(argv[1]);
std::string file_text;
std::string file_save = argv[2];
std::string return_text;
char choice = 'y';
char decryt_letter;
/// this if statement check to see if the file is open other wise it will output "file not found"
if (file.is_open()) {
/// gets each line from the file and outputs it to the screen
while (getline(file, file_text)) {
for (char &c : file_text) {
/// call the function to change all the lower cases letter to upcase letter so it can be run thought
/// the character_count function as it only accepted upper cases letters.
if (is_alpha(c) && !is_upper(c)) {
file_text_as_upper += to_upper(c);
} else
file_text_as_upper += c;
}
}
/// calls the function to count how many of each diffrent letter there is.
character_count(file_text_as_upper);

file.close();

while (choice == 'y' || choice == 'Y') {
std::cout << "please enter a letter to try and decypt the cipher"
<< std::endl;
std::cin >> decryt_letter;
if (is_alpha(decryt_letter)) {
std::cout
<< "letter choose to try to decryption on the cipher is: "
<< decryt_letter << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
decrypt(decryt_letter, file_text_as_upper, return_text);
} else
(std::cout << "Invaild input please input a letter a-z: "
<< std::endl);

/// test another letter option user input
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
std::cout << "DO you want to try another letter? (y/n)"
<< std::endl;
std::cin >> choice;

if (choice == 'n' || choice == 'N') {
///create text file to save decrypt toF
std::ofstream Myfile(file_save);
Myfile << return_text;
std::cout << "====================| Saved to file " << file_save
<< " |==================== " << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
Myfile.close();
}
}
} else {
std::cout
<< "====================| File not found |===================="
<< std::endl;

}
return 0;
}

Cipher librarys file

#include iostream>
#include cstring>
#include string>
#include fstream>
#include cstdlib>
#include cctype>
#include algorithm>
#include "header.hpp"

/// this is the function that counts amount of letters in the file
void character_count(std::string file_text) {

char aplhabet_upper[26] = { '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' };

char aplhabet_lower[26] = { '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' };
std::string code = file_text;
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
int amount[26];
int top1 = -1;
int top2 = -1;
int top3 = -1;
int length = 0;

code.erase(remove(code.begin(), code.end(), ' '), code.end());
length = (int) code.length();
/// loops thought the string
for (j = 0; j < 26; j++) {
amount[j] = 0;
// loops though the alphabet
for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
if (code[i] == aplhabet_lower[j] || code[i] == aplhabet_upper[j]) {
amount[j]++;
}

}
// prints out letter and amount
std::cout << (char) aplhabet_upper[j] << " : " << amount[j]
<< std::endl;
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;

}
/// goes though and finds the highest letter count
for (i = 0; i <= 26; i++) {
if (amount[i] >= amount[top1]) {
top3 = top2;
top2 = top1;
top1 = i;
/// replaces amounts when it finds a new second top
} else if (amount[i] >= amount[top2]) {
top3 = top2;
top2 = i;
/// replaces amounts when it finds a new second top
} else if (amount[i] > amount[top3]) {
top3 = i;
}

}
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;
std::cout << "most frequent letters are" << std::endl;
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;
std::cout << (char) aplhabet_upper[top1] << " : " << amount[top1]
<< std::endl;
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;
std::cout << (char) aplhabet_upper[top2] << " : " << amount[top2]
<< std::endl;
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;
std::cout << (char) aplhabet_upper[top3] << " : " << amount[top3]
<< std::endl;
std::cout << "-------------" << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
}

///------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void print_analysis_array() {

}
///------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// changes lower cases letters to up so they can be counted
char to_upper(char character) {
return (int) character - 32;
}
///------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool is_upper(char character) {
if (character >= 65 && character <= 90) {
return true;
} else
return false;
}
///------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool is_alpha(char letter) {
if (((int) letter >= 65 && (int) letter <= 90)
|| ((int) letter >= 97 && (int) letter <= 122)) {
return true;
} else
return false;
}
///------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// opens the read file for the code to use
int open_file(int argc, char *argv[]) {
std::string file_text;
std::cout << argv[1] << std::endl;

std::ifstream file(argv[1]);
/// this if statement check to see if the file is open other wise it will output "file not found"
if (file.is_open()) {
/// gets each line from the file and outputs it to the screen
while (getline(file, file_text)) {
std::cout << file_text;
return true;
}
file.close();
} else {
std::cout << "File not found" << std::endl;
return false;
}
std::cout << file_text << std::endl;
return 0;
}
///---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// decryption cipher
///this functions will decipher the code with the giving input decrptying key
void decrypt(char decryt_letter, std::string &file_text,
std::string &return_text) {

std::string test = file_text;
std::string output;
int length = test.length();

int decrypt_number = (int) decryt_letter
- (is_upper(decryt_letter) ? 65 : 97);
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
int temp =
((int) test[i] < 65 + decrypt_number && (int) test[i] >= 65)
|| ((int) test[i] < 97 + decrypt_number
&& (int) test[i] >= 97) ?
(int) test[i] + 26 : (int) test[i];
output += (temp < 65) ? temp : temp - decrypt_number;
}
return_text = output;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
std::cout << "====================| 100 character sample "
<< "|==================== " << std::endl;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
std::cout << return_text[i];
}
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
std::cout << "================================================================ "
<< std::endl;
std::cout << " " << std::endl;
}

Cipher Header file

#include iostream>
#include cstring>
#include string>
#include fstream>
#include cstdlib>

void character_count(std::string file_text );

char to_upper(char file_output);

int open_file(int argc, char *argv[]);

void decrypt(char decryt_letter, std::string &file_text, std::string &return_text);

bool is_alpha(char letter);

bool is_upper(char character) ;