From: Todd Benson Date: 2008-03-17T11:03:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Cipher On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Todd Benson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Max Zhou wrote: > > I am trying to make a program that takes what you input, and encrypts it by turning a to p, b to q, z to b, etc. It moves the letter 2 spaces to the left (a to c) and moves it down (c to p). (See below.) Even though you can just say that a will be n, how do you seperate each letter and turn it into a string? Please put it in terms that a Ruby beginner would understand. Also, I forgot to mention that you should realize that a String object should be thought of as really just an ordering of bytes with some special methods to make it human readable. Todd