Re: simple cipher
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- Subject: [mg55398] Re: simple cipher
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:02:05 -0500 (EST)
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Hello zak,
the function you are looking for is:
Pick[s2, s1, 1]
Daniel
zak wrote:
> s1 = {1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1}
> s2 = {L, r, o, w, e, v, y, e}
>
> s1 is a kind of a sieve i want to look through to s2, so i could pick
> every letter in s2 wich correspond to every digit=1 in s1 so i could
> obtain the word "love", this is like the trivial ciphers we know in
> our childhood, i have the following approach, i hope there is other
> versions.
>
> p = Flatten[Position[s1, 1]]
> out[]= {1, 3, 6, 8}
>
> str = "";
> Do[str = StringJoin[str, ToString[s2[[p[[i]]]]]], {i, 1, 4}]
> str
>
> Out[]= Love
>
> thanks
> zak
>