Shell Script - Alphabet in code

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Hi e
Hi everyone, I can't make this script work,

#! /bin/bash declare -A crypt=(     ['@_banana']="A"     ['99_melon']="a"     ['AZ_GRAPE']="B"     ['!!_stars']="b"     ['81_xxxxxx']="C"     ['computer']="c"     ['111_space']=' '     ['life_9900']='!' )  encode () {     local word=$1     for ((i=0; i<${#word}; ++i)) ; do         local char=${word:$i:1}         printf %s' ' ${crypt[$char]}     done     printf '\n' }  declare -A decrypt for char in "${!crypt[@]}" ; do     key=${crypt[$char]}     decrypt[$key]=$char done  decode () {     local word=$1     while [[ $word ]] ; do         local code         for code in "${!decrypt[@]}"; do             if [[ $word == "$code"* ]] ; then                 printf %s "${decrypt[$code]}"                 word=${word#"$code"}             fi         done     done     printf '\n' }  encode '@_banana!!_starscomputerlife_9900'

Output:

I can't make the output work

should work like this

encode '@_banana!!_starscomputerlife_9900'

Output: Abc!

wanted it to work to decode the output

2

Welcome on board!

Thanks in applying our rules, not often we see newcomers doing that from the beginning...
Now, for what reason is your code a one liner? Do you think people will loose time going through such a line?
Making your code easy to read will have far more success...

3

the code is not linear I pasted it here in the forum and it came out like this

--- Post updated at 04:29 PM ---

#! /bin/bash declare -A crypt=(     ['@_banana']="A"     ['99_melon']="a"     ['AZ_GRAPE']="B"     ['!!_stars']="b"     ['81_xxxxxx']="C"     ['computer']="c"     ['111_space']=' '     ['life_9900']='!' )  encode () {     local word=$1     for ((i=0; i<${#word}; ++i)) ; do         local char=${word:$i:1}         printf %s' ' ${crypt[$char]}     done     printf '\n' }  declare -A decrypt for char in "${!crypt[@]}" ; do     key=${crypt[$char]}     decrypt[$key]=$char done  decode () {     local word=$1     while [[ $word ]] ; do         local code         for code in "${!decrypt[@]}"; do             if [[ $word == "$code"* ]] ; then                 printf %s "${decrypt[$code]}"                 word=${word#"$code"}             fi         done     done     printf '\n' }  encode '@_banana!!_starscomputerlife_9900'
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#! /bin/bash 
declare -A crypt=(     ['@_banana']="A"     ['99_melon']="a"     ['AZ_GRAPE']="B"     ['!!_stars']="b"     ['81_xxxxxx']="C"     ['computer']="c"     ['111_space']=' '     ['life_9900']='!' )  

encode () 
{     
local word=$1     
for ((i=0; i<${#word}; ++i)) ; 
do
         local char=${word:$i:1}
         printf %s' ' ${crypt[$char]}
done
printf '\n' 
}  

declare -A decrypt 
for char in "${!crypt[@]}" 
do     
  key=${crypt[$char]}     
  decrypt[$key]=$char
done
 
decode () 
{     
local word=$1     
while [[ $word ]] ; 
do
         local code
         for code in "${!decrypt[@]}"; 
         do 
               if [[ $word == "$code"* ]] ; 
               then
                    printf %s "${decrypt[$code]}"
                    word=${word#"$code"}
               fi
         done
done
     printf '\n' 
} 
 
encode '@_banana!!_starscomputerlife_9900'

Your code reformatted as far as I can understand, I let you correct from there, and perhaps people now may get involved...

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5

Hi
maybe so?

...
encode () {
        local word=$1
        for word in $1; do
                echo -n "${crypt[$word]} "
        done
        echo
}
...
encode '@_banana !!_stars computer life_9900'

--- Post updated 12-12-19 at 00:23 ---

or it's better to get by with multiple parameters because in the "decode" procedure
it is necessary to iterate with a space and it is better to adhere to the same style of calling functions

encode () {
        for word in $@; do
                echo -n "${crypt[$word]} "
        done
        echo
}
encode @_banana !!_stars computer 111_space life_9900
decode () {
        while [ "$1" ]; do
                echo "$1"
               ...
                shift
        done
}
decode A a b c ' ' !
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6

Your encode should pretty much be the same function as your decode, just use crypt array instead of decrypt:

encode ()
{
local word=$1
while [[ $word ]] ;
do
         local code
         for code in "${!crypt[@]}";
         do
               if [[ $word == "$code"* ]] ;
               then
                    printf %s "${crypt[$code]}"
                    word=${word#"$code"}
               fi
         done
done
printf '\n'
}
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