You gave me some good ideas that I modified slightly. I didn’t see the benefit of the multiplier vs. the adder (perhaps you can convince me), but the comments were a good idea. More importantly, I modified to paste the code directly above the highlighted string and put most of it in an If statement. The upshot is that you can encode several strings in the same method without an error.
Function RndInRange (startIndex As Integer, endIndex As Integer) As Integer
dim d as Double = Rnd
dim range as Integer = endIndex - startIndex
return Round( range * d ) + startIndex
End Function
dim origString as String = SelText
if origString.Trim = "" then
print "Select some text first."
return
end if
origString = origString.ReplaceAll( """""", """" )
dim chars() as String = Split( origString, "" )
dim startQuote as boolean = chars( 0 ) = """"
dim endQuote as boolean = chars( chars.Ubound ) = """"
if endQuote then
chars.Remove chars.Ubound
end if
if chars.Ubound <> -1 and startQuote then
chars.Remove 0
end if
if chars.Ubound = -1 then
print "Select some valid text first."
return
end if
dim stringToEncode as String = Join( chars, "" )
dim b as String = ShowDialog( "You are about to encode this string. Proceed?", stringToEncode, "Yes", "No", "" )
if b = "No" then
return
end if
dim index as Integer
dim codeArr() as String
dim indexArr() as String
dim addArr() as String
dim randomizerArr() as Integer
for index = 0 to chars.Ubound
dim thisAdd as Integer = RndInRange( 64001, 100000 )
codeArr.Append Str( Asc( chars( index ) ) + thisAdd )
indexArr.Append Str( index )
addArr.Append Str( thisAdd )
randomizerArr.Append RndInRange( 0, chars.Ubound * 100 )
next index
randomizerArr.SortWith( codeArr, indexArr, addArr )
// Construct the code
dim eol as String = EndOfLine
dim resultArr() as String
resultArr.Append "dim decodedString as String"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "// Encoding for value: "
resultArr.Append stringToEncode
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "if True then"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "dim codeArr() as Integer = Array( "
resultArr.Append Join( codeArr, ", " )
resultArr.Append " )"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "dim adderArr() as Integer = Array( "
resultArr.Append Join( addArr, ", " )
resultArr.Append " )"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "dim indexArr() as Integer = Array( "
resultArr.Append Join( indexArr, ", " )
resultArr.Append " )"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "indexArr.SortWith codeArr, adderArr"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "dim decodedChars() as String"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "for i as Integer = 0 to codeArr.Ubound"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "decodedChars.Append Chr( codeArr( i ) - adderArr( i ) )"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "next i"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "decodedString = Join( decodedChars, """" )"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "end if // True"
resultArr.Append eol
resultArr.Append "// End Encoding for value: "
resultArr.Append stringToEncode
resultArr.Append eol
dim result as String = Join( resultArr, "" )
b = ShowDialog( "Paste into this method or Copy to clipboard?", result, "Paste", "Cancel", "Copy" )
select case b
case "Cancel"
return
case "Copy"
Clipboard = result
case "Paste"
// See if we need the initial declaration
if Text.InStr( resultArr( 0 ) ) <> 0 then
for index = 1 to 2
resultArr.Remove 0
next index
result = Join( resultArr, "" )
end if
// Figure out where we should paste
dim curText as String = Text
dim curSelStart as Integer = SelStart
dim newSelStart as Integer
for index = curSelStart downto 1
dim curChar as String = curText.Mid( index, 1 )
if curChar = Chr( 13 ) or curChar = Chr( 10 ) then
newSelStart = index
exit
end if
next index
SelText = "decodedString"
SelStart = newSelStart
SelLength = 0
SelText = result
SelText = eol
end select
as that makes a dead easy path