Why not use regex substitution?

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %codewheel = ( 'A' => 'B', 'B' => 'C', 'C' => 'D' );
my $message = 'ABC';
$message =~ s/(\w)/${codewheel{$1}}/g;
print "Message: $message\n";

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Update: Of course, as pointed out by some of the later responses, this code suppresses any characters that are not accounted-for in your %codewheel hash. For example, with the same translation hash, if your original message was 'ABCXYZ', this code would still translate it as 'BCD' (and produce some warnings). If you don't want that outcome, you'll need to adapt the 'or' (||) logic shown in other responses.


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In reply to Re: simple letter substitution according to hash by ptum
in thread simple letter substitution according to hash by DavidC

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