Barrel cypher

[TheSageMage]

First time coder here... just so I make the program well...

Can we assume that a filename will always be provided? And can we assume that it'll always exist and will always be filled?

[davidb]

Actually it depends from puzzle to puzzle.

You can check in the top right corner of the puzzle, it says scoring.
If it says language, it means solutions in Java are compared only to Java solutions.

For this puzzle, the code length is used to compute the score and the score is language aware.

[Ton24]

Is there a possibility of the message contains numerical or punctuation character.
If there is , so what should it be decrypted into ?

And I don't really get what "The first 30 spaces, tabs and newlines are ignored, each additional one counts as one character." means.
More description please ?

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[Yu-chiuan Huang]

When i try to solve problem2, as list in follow, there is a problem.
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fqltg waxpahoolab dwpvg
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According to the key,
for instance, I should decode f to w.
However, f, which is 102 in ASCII, is impossible to decode into w, which is 119 in ASCII, within 9 digits at most.

Could you help me to clarify this?

[Alexey Solodovnikov]

Try to understand why w+9=f

[ronaldrandon]

I am new to codercharts. I have submitted my code for Barrel cypher and I have passed the tests. But my score is still zero. I am aware that the program length will be taken into account. If so, I am supposed to get some low scores. But my score is zero.

Will it take some time to update the scores?
Please guide me on this.

[Khaled Sobhy]

my score is always zero too!!. Do I have to decrease code lines?!