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I have a document with a unique alphabet, how can I translate it?

I have a document filled with weird characters, but I have the counterpart of the letters in another document.

Eg. 

⟷ = a
⇳ = b
⤚ = c

etc...

I think that I can do this by using a dictionary, and a simple swap algorythm, but I'm still a newbie in programming. Do you think that's a good idea? How can I translate the whole text (preferably using Python or C++), without having to use MS Word's built in "swap" tool?

Solution

  • Yes dictionary is an option. You could also look at string.maketrans() method to do that.

    from string import maketrans

intab = "aeiou"
outtab = "12345"
trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab)

str = "this is string example....wow!!!";
print(str.translate(trantab))

    will give output

    th3s 3s str3ng 2x1mpl2....w4w!!!