hello i am stack with this exercise as part of a test, how can i solve it or hint to solve it
/**
* Class SubstitutionEncodingAlgorithm
*/
class SubstitutionEncodingAlgorithm implements EncodingAlgorithm {
/**
* @var array
*/
private $substitutions;
/**
* SubstitutionEncodingAlgorithm constructor.
* @param $substitutions
*/
public function __construct(array $substitutions) {
$this->substitutions = array();
}
/**
* Encodes text by substituting character with another one provided in the pair.
* For example pair "ab" defines all "a" chars will be replaced with "b" and all "b" chars will be replaced with "a"
* Examples:
* substitutions = ["ab"], input = "aabbcc", output = "bbaacc"
* substitutions = ["ab", "cd"], input = "adam", output = "bcbm"
*
* @param string $text
* @return string
*/
public function encode($text) {
/**
* @todo: Implement it
*/
}
}
that what i ve tried so far in the encode () function but its not working, what i am doing wrong ?
public function encode($text) {
$length = strlen($text);
$newstr = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
if (is_array($this->substitutions) && in_array(strtoupper($text[$i]), array_flip($this->substitutions)))
$newstr .= $this->substitutions[strtoupper($text[$i])];
}
return $newstr;
}
i understand that it is the cesar algorithm to be implemented so far, any help would be appreciated on how to do it
You could take the substitutions array and split it into two arrays, e.g.
$swapA = array();
$swapB = array();
//for each item in the substitutions array take the first char
// and place in swapA and the second/last char and place in swapB
foreach($substitutions as $sub)
{
$swapA = substr($sub,0,1);
$swapB = substr($sub,1,1);
}
// the str_replace will replace the all characters in $text chars
// from position x in swapA with chars in the same position in swapB
$output = str_replace($swapA, $swapB, $text);
$swapA = array();
$swapB = array();
$output = '';
$aText = str_split($text);
foreach($this->substitutions as $sub)
{
$swapA[] = substr($sub,0,1);
$swapB[] = substr($sub,1,1);
}
foreach ($aText as $letter) {
if (in_array(strtolower($letter, $swapA)) {
$positionOccurence = array_search ($letter, $swapA);
$replaced = $swapB[$positionOccurence];
$output .= str_replace($letter, $replaced, $letter);
} elseif (in_array(strtolower($letter), $swapB)) {
$positionOccurence = array_search ($letter, $swapB);
$replaced = $swapA[$positionOccurence];
$output .= str_replace($letter, $replaced, $letter);
} else {
$output .= $letter;
}
}
return $output;
My try - it is just for one byte per char text:
private function encodeText (string $text) : string {
$result = '';
for ($i = 0, $e = strlen ($text); $i < $e; $i ++) {
foreach ($this->substitutions as $substitution) {
$strpos = strpos ($substitution, $text {$i});
if ($strpos !== false) {
$result .= $strpos == 0 ? $substitution {1} : $substitution {0};
continue 2;
}
}
$result .= $text {$i};
}
return $result;
}
Other solution is much more faster and simpler:
first create in constructor array like:
foreach ($substitutions as $substitution) {
$this->substitutions ['from'] .= $substitution {0} . $substitution {1} . strtoupper($substitution {0} . $substitution {1});
$this->substitutions ['to'] .= $substitution {1} . $substitution {0} . strtoupper($substitution {1} . $substitution {0});
}
and then simply make translation:
public function encode($text)
{
return strtr ($text, $this->substitutions ['from'], $this->substitutions ['to']);
}