Please help!! pset 2 cannot successfully create a loop for "k"

Question

#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (int argc, string argv[])
{

  string k= argv[1];
  string p = argv[2];

  if (argc==2) 
    {
      p=GetString();
    }
  else
    {
      printf("There is an error in input");
      return 1;
    }

  for (int a = 0, m = strlen(k); a<m; a++)
    { 
      if ((k[a] > 'Z'&& k[a] < 'a' )|| (k[a]> 'z')|| (k[a]< 'A'))
        {
          printf("This is an invalid entry\n");
          return 1;
        }
    }      

  int a = 0;      

  for (int i = 0, n = strlen(p); i<n; i++)
    {
      int m = strlen(k);

      if((p[i] > 'Z'&& p[i] < 'a' )|| (p[i]> 'z')|| (p[i]< 'A'))
        {
          printf("%c",p[i]);
        }

      else
        {

          if (k[a] >=65 && k[a] <= 90)

            {
              (k[a] = k[a] - 65);
            }

          if (k[a] >=97 && k[a] <= 122)

            {
              (k[a] = k[a] - 97);
            }

          if((p[i] <= 'Z'&& p[i] >= 'A' ) && (p[i]+k[a] <= 'z'&& p[i]+k[a] >= 'a')) 
            {
              (p[i] = p[i]+ k[a] -26);
              printf("%c",p[i]);
            }

          else if((p[i]+k[a] <= 'Z'&& p[i]+k[a] >= 'A' )|| (p[i]+k[a] <= 'z'&& p[i]+k[a] >= 'a')) 
            {
              (p[i] = p[i]+ k[a]);
              printf("%c",p[i]);
            }

          else
            {

              (p[i]= p[i]+k[a]-26);
              printf("%c",p[i]);
            }

          a++;

          if (a>m)
            {
              (a= 0);
            }


        }
    }
  printf("\n");

  return 0; 
}

Please help, I have spent hours being stuck on this one last step for pset2.

Shown in the picture is part of my code for vigenere. What I am stuck on is that argv[2] cannot be successfully translated into the secret code I want because somehow not the whole "k" string (k string is my key string from argv[1]) is being read and executed. I've read my code over and over again but still can't find what is wrong.

Can someone please help me T_T

Thanks

Answer 1

For starters, why are you trying to access argv[2]? What are you using it for? The problem spec says that argv[1] is the key string and you are to prompt for a string to be encoded. Also, the part of your code dealing with argv isn't shown. It makes it difficult to offer useful assistance.

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