Question

I am a C# guy who is desperately trying to learn C++ and port some old code over. Been doing OK so far but the following method has me stumped. If anyone could give me some pointers (sorry for pun) I would be grateful.

C# method:

public static string crappyEncryption(String userKey)    
{    
    StringBuilder eStr = new StringBuilder();    
    String key1 = "somehorriblelongstring";    
    String key2 = "someotherhorriblelongstring";    
    for (int i = 0; i < userKey.Length; i++)   
    {    
        eStr.Append(key2[key1.IndexOf(userKey[i])]);    
    }    
    return encodeTo64(eStr.ToString());    
} 

encodeTo64 is a local method which I have solved in C++. This weird method (if you were wondering) was a small encryption method I came up with that we could use mobile cross platform for non-essential string encryption.

Thanks very much

Answer 1

Not gonna give you the whole code, but some pointers:

• a StringBuilder can be substituted by a std::stringstream.
• a String is a std::string
• it has the method length(), find() and operator[].
• std::stringstream has operator << for Append.
• ToString is std::stringstream::str().
• you’ll want to pass userKey by reference.

All concepts you don’t understand can easily be found with a google search.