Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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my code is basically complete but freecodecamp has not approved it, I’ve proofread about 100 times

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text = 'Hello Zaira'
shift = 3
def caesar():
    alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
    encrypted_text = ' '

    for char in text.lower():
        if char == ' ':
            encrypted_text += char
        else:
            index =     alphabet.find(char)
            new_index = (index + shift) % len(alphabet)
            encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
    print('plain text:', text)
    print('encrypted text:', encrypted_text)

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Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Welcome to the forum :wave: We’re glad to have you :smile:

There’s a space in the encrypted_text variable, when it should be an empty string. An empty string doesn’t include any characters, not even spaces.

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Thank you so much, eliminated the space and everything submitted successfully

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