JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Projects - Caesars Cipher

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So I have completed this challenge, my question is any idea how I could avoid hard coding the special chars?
I guess I could use regex but how can I implement it?
thanks.

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function rot13(str) {
  const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('')
  let result = "";
  let dictionary = {
    'A': 0,
    'B': 1,
    'C': 2,
    'D': 3,
    'E': 4,
    'F': 5,
    'G': 6,
    'H': 7,
    'I': 8,
    'J': 9,
    'K': 10,
    'L': 11,
    'M': 12,
    'N': 13,
    'O': 14,
    'P': 15,
    'Q': 16,
    'R': 17,
    'S': 18,
    'T': 19,
    'U': 20,
    'V': 21,
    'W': 22,
    'X': 23,
    'Y': 24,
    'Z': 25,
  }


  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
    if (dictionary[str[i]] >= 13) {
      let lookUpKey = dictionary[str[i]] - 13;
      result += alphabet[lookUpKey];
    }
    else if (dictionary[str[i]] < 13) {
      let lookUpKey = dictionary[str[i]] + 13;
      result += alphabet[lookUpKey];
    }
    else if (str[i] === " ") {
      result += " ";
    }
    else if (str[i] === '?') {
      result += '?';
    }
    else if (str[i] === '!') {
      result += '!';
    }
    else if (str[i] === '.') {
      result += '.';
    }
  }
  return result.toUpperCase();

}


rot13("SERR PBQR PNZC");


let regex = /[\s!?.]/g
   else if (regex.test(str[i])) {
     result += str[i]
   }

P.S. I have tried adding the code above to my solution but it didn’t do exactly what I wanted it to do.

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Challenge: JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Projects - Caesars Cipher

Link to the challenge:

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Google something called an ASCII table and then google up how to get the ASCII value of any character in JavaScript.

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I’ll check it out, thanks

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