Learn String Manipulation by Building a Cipher - Step 49

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Tell us what’s happening:

What else do I need to do after creating the def function?

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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)
                if index != -1:  
                    new_index = (index + shift) % len(alphabet)
                    encrypted_text += alphabet[new_index]
                else:
                    encrypted_text += char 

        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:

Only indent once. You have 2 levels of indentation:

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You’ve also duplicated the if/else and lost some lines in the process.

Reset the step, create the def and just indent everything 1 tab

You can highlight all of the text that you want to indent and press tab once, if that helps.

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where is this code from? you should only indent the code, not add new code

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After doing everything, the report is " You should use the def keyword to declare a new function."

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Thank you! It worked!

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