Creating a Program that encodes and decodes a message?

[lostandconfused]

Hey guys, I am starting this project on how to encode and decode messages that are inputted, but I have no idea how to start even start this? Any tips or guidance would be helpful!

[soranz]

int main()
{
return 0;
}

[vxk]

You need to learn cryptography .

For a simple start you can look at a simple xor operation or a caesar cipher on your inputed data .
Link to working of caesar cipher : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher

[jasonwynn10]

try this:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/63633/

[jemeripol]

Research about parsing string characters.
I have created a parser that recognizes variables from integers out of a pool of string.

Take a look at my thread.
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/142136/