package main import ( "fmt" "io/ioutil" "os" "strings" ) // so far letters and numbers work, symbols and punctuation are not ok // input file has data vertically, I assume it must be switches to horisontal...? // example command: go run . --reverse=inputfile.txt func main() { args_slice := os.Args[1:] reference_file := "shadow.txt" var file_name string for i, name := range args_slice { if strings.Contains(name, "--reverse=") { // looking for flag file_name = name[10:] break } if len(args_slice)-1 == i { fmt.Println("EX: go run . something standard --reverse=") } } input, err1 := ioutil.ReadFile(file_name) // reading graphic input file text_slices := strings.Split(string(input), "\n") if err1 != nil { fmt.Println("file does not exist") os.Exit(1) } reference, err2 := ioutil.ReadFile(reference_file) // reading example file standard-shadow-thinkerboy reference_slices := strings.Split(string(reference), "\n") if err2 != nil { fmt.Println("reference not found") os.Exit(2) } indexes := make([]int, 0) // contains indexes to reverse-calculate ascii values for x := 0; x < len(text_slices)-9; x += 9 { for i := 0; i < len(reference_slices)-9; i += 9 { for y := 0; y < 9; y++ { if text_slices[x+y] == reference_slices[i+y] && y != 8 { continue } else if y == 8 && text_slices[y] == reference_slices[i+y] { indexes = append(indexes, i) break } else { break } } } } // fmt.Println(len(indexes)) // fmt.Println(indexes) var str_output string for id := range indexes { str_output += string(byte(indexes[id]/9 + 32)) } fmt.Println(str_output) }