in reply to Optional Arguments..?

Could you please show the code for the encode, decode routines. The arguments you have in these statements don't look right to me.
my $decode = ST2614::decode(FILEHANDLE, $ARGV[1]); my $encode = ST2614::encode(HoA, $ARGV[1]);
poj

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: Optional Arguments..?
by Watergun (Novice) on Jun 03, 2012 at 12:53 UTC
    Hello, here is the code.
    #/usr/bin/perl -w # Demo Version - # AY2012/2013 ST2614 Assignment # PM to support Personal Password Manager package ST2614 ; our $VERSION = 1.0; sub getAscii { # This is a helper function to support encode() and decode() # #input a normal string # convert each char of the string to its corresponding ascii cod +e # return the list of the ascii codes # in one , delimited string my $plaintext= shift; my @asciilist = (); my @tmplist = split('', $plaintext); foreach $ch (@tmplist) { push (@asciilist, ord($ch)); # use ord to get ascii code } return join(",",@asciilist); } sub encode { # simple xor encoding # Argument 1 - A string in plain text - to be encoded # Argument 2 - A string in plain text, represent the key # return the xor result in ascii form my ($text , $key) = @_; $text = getAscii($text); $key = getAscii($key); my @textlist = split(',',$text); my @keyblk = split(',',$key); my $index = 0; my $max = @keyblk; my @encodedlist = (); foreach $chcode (@textlist) { # simple xor encoding # must use int() to force a numeric xor operation my $secret = int($chcode) ^ int($keyblk[$index]); push(@encodedlist,$secret); # store the result # recycle the key block $index = ($index+1) % $max; } return join(",",@encodedlist); } sub decode { # simple xor decoding # Argument 1 - encoded string in ascii list form # Argument 2 - A string in plain text, represent the key # return the xor result in plain text string form my ($secret , $key) = @_; $key = getAscii($key); # break the line into array and xor with the keyblock my @secretlist = split(',',$secret); my @keyblk = split(',',$key); my $index = 0; my $max = @keyblk; my $orgText = ""; foreach $chcode (@secretlist) { my $org = int($chcode) ^ int($keyblk[$index++]); # convert numeric ascii value back to character form # and append it to $orgText $orgText .= chr($org); $index = $index % $max; } return $orgText; } 1; # required to return 1 at the end of a pm file
      OK, looks like arguments are text strings, not a filehandle or a hash ref. Can you show some lines of data from the passmgr.dat file.
      poj

        I don't really know how to copy and paste output from my terminal, but basically it goes like this (not real output)

        1,92,54,12,32,53,23,54,11,53,68,77

        However I have no error with encoding. I just can't.. figure out how to code it when it involved decoding data (an additional step from basic printing of my hash array)