I am unable to make my key wrap around. The first three letters are working, however, after those, the program stops working and outputs garbage (or really secure cipher :))
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Are you sure the code you posted was for vigenere? As a caesar cypher, the program seems fine (at least on the couple tests I did). Your problem is that your program doesn't handle key words, only single numbers, which is why the check program worked on "a." Maybe I'm missing something though.– cb3kCommented Aug 13, 2016 at 19:08
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Yeah I posted the wrong code on accident, I put in the new code now.– HumanCommented Aug 13, 2016 at 21:58
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After the first pass through the key, every char in the key has been converted to numbers between 0 and 25 inclusive. Starting on the second pass through, the else clauses are executing, moving the key values into negative numbers. The results now become garbage.
The concept of converting the key to numbers from 0 to 25 is good. You just need to do it only once. Maybe you might consider a for loop to convert the key array once before starting the for loop to process the plain text?
Also, you have another error waiting in the wings. What about upper vs. lower case in the plain text?
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