Rolling Text - loop help

akuma6099

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Hello everyone. I was getting creative and started to make a simulated "Encrypter" that simply takes some text and rolls it while solving for each letter. Movie style! I plan on incorporating this into any console app I make just for fun. I'm having an issue with a nested for loop and could use another eye. The issue is that the nested for loop is responsible for randomizing the remaining characters that haven't been printed to console yet and I'm off by one. With the for loop commented out it works fine. It is the rolling effect that is off by one char.

:pseudo:
Parse input text.
For each letter in text, generate a random char and insert into new string(strEncrypted).
For each VbCr, record the index into a List(Of Integer).
Print strEncrypted while inserting vbCrLf's to match input string character positions.
Starting from left to right, roll each char random(20, 40) times then print non-encrypted letter.


Here is the sub:

VB.NET:
Private Sub Decryptor(ByVal strOut As String)
        Dim strEncrypted As String = ""
        Dim intVbCrLFIndex As List(Of Integer) = New List(Of Integer)
        Dim intCurrentPositionLeft As Integer = Console.CursorLeft
        Dim intDefaultPositionLeft As Integer = Console.CursorLeft
        Dim intCurrentPositionTop As Integer = Console.CursorTop
        Dim intDefaultPositionTop As Integer = Console.CursorTop


        'Encrypt string and record the vbCrLf indexes.
        For i As Integer = 0 To strOut.Length - 1
            If strOut.ElementAt(i).ToString = vbCr Then
                intVbCrLFIndex.Add(i)
                Continue For
            ElseIf strOut.ElementAt(i).ToString = vbLf Then
                Continue For
            End If
            strEncrypted &= R()
        Next

        'Print Encrypted string while inserting vbCrLf.
        For i As Integer = 0 To strEncrypted.Length - 1
            If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(i) Then
                Console.Write(vbCrLf)
            End If
            Sleep(5)
            Console.Write(strEncrypted(i))
        Next

        'Decode Encrypted string in-place while rolling.
        Dim intLooper As Integer = 0
        For i As Integer = 0 To (strEncrypted.Length - 1) + (intVbCrLFIndex.Count)
            If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(i) Then
                intVbCrLFIndex.Remove(i)
                intCurrentPositionTop = intDefaultPositionTop + 1
                intCurrentPositionLeft = intDefaultPositionLeft
                'intLooper += 1
                Continue For
            End If

            Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)

            Dim intTimes As Integer = m_r.Next(10, 20)

            While intTimes >= 0
                Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
                Console.Write(R())
                Sleep(1)
                intTimes -= 1

                Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
                'For j As Integer = intLooper To (strEncrypted.Length - 1) '+ (intVbCrLFIndex.Count)
                '    If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(j) Then
                '        Console.Write(vbCrLf)
                '        Continue For
                '    End If
                '    Console.Write(R())
                'Next

            End While

            Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
            If strOut(i) = vbCr Or strOut(i) = vbLf Then
                Console.Write(vbCrLf)
                'intLooper += 1
                Continue For
            End If

            Console.Write(strOut(i))
            intCurrentPositionLeft += 1
            intLooper += 1
        Next

    End Sub

Dim m_r As New Random()
    Private ReadOnly Property R() As Char
        Get
            Dim t As Integer = m_r.[Next](10)
            If t <= 2 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("0"c)) + m_r.[Next](10))
            ElseIf t <= 4 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("a"c)) + m_r.[Next](27))
            ElseIf t <= 6 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("A"c)) + m_r.[Next](27))
            Else
                Return ChrW(m_r.[Next](32, 255))
            End If
        End Get
    End Property

I had to use "intLooper" due to the way I handled the vbCrLf's. Originally I was using the outter loop variable "i" for the inner for loop but "i" would skip a number where there was a vbCrLf and so would the inner for loop. For each vbCrLf in strOut, strEncrypted will be reduced by 2 characters...

If there is a better way I'm all ears! Thank you.
 
Here is an updated version. Now it rolls as it prints out, then starts solving from left to right.

VB.NET:
    Private m_r As New Random()

    Private ReadOnly Property R() As Char
        Get
            Dim t As Integer = m_r.[Next](10)
            If t <= 2 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("0"c)) + m_r.[Next](10))
            ElseIf t <= 4 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("a"c)) + m_r.[Next](27))
            ElseIf t <= 6 Then
                Return ChrW(CInt(AscW("A"c)) + m_r.[Next](27))
            Else
                Return ChrW(m_r.[Next](32, 127))
            End If
        End Get
    End Property

Private Sub Decryptor(ByVal strOut As String)
        Dim strEncrypted As String = ""
        Dim intVbCrLFIndex As List(Of Integer) = New List(Of Integer)
        Dim intCurrentPositionLeft As Integer = Console.CursorLeft
        Dim intDefaultPositionLeft As Integer = Console.CursorLeft
        Dim intCurrentPositionTop As Integer = Console.CursorTop
        Dim intDefaultPositionTop As Integer = Console.CursorTop


        'Encrypt string and record the vbCrLf indexes.
        For i As Integer = 0 To strOut.Length - 1
            If strOut.ElementAt(i).ToString = vbCr Then
                intVbCrLFIndex.Add(i)
                Continue For
            ElseIf strOut.ElementAt(i).ToString = vbLf Then
                Continue For
            End If
            strEncrypted &= R()
        Next

        'Print Rolling Encrypted string while inserting vbCrLf.
        For i As Integer = 0 To strEncrypted.Length - 1
            Console.SetCursorPosition(intDefaultPositionLeft, intDefaultPositionTop)
            For j As Integer = 0 To i - 1
                If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(j) Then
                    Console.Write(vbCrLf)
                End If
                Console.Write(R())
            Next
            If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(i) Then
                Console.Write(vbCrLf)
            End If
            Sleep(5)
            Console.Write(strEncrypted(i))
        Next

        'Decode Encrypted string in-place while rolling.
        Dim intLooper As Integer = 0
        For i As Integer = 0 To (strEncrypted.Length - 1) + (intVbCrLFIndex.Count)
            If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(i) Then
                intVbCrLFIndex.Remove(i)
                'i -= 1
                intCurrentPositionTop = intDefaultPositionTop + 1
                intCurrentPositionLeft = intDefaultPositionLeft
                Continue For
            End If

            Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)

            Dim intTimes As Integer = m_r.Next(10, 30)

            While intTimes <> 0
                Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
                Console.Write(R())
                Sleep(1)
                intTimes -= 1

                Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
                For j As Integer = intLooper To (strEncrypted.Length - 1)
                    If intVbCrLFIndex.Contains(j) Then
                        Console.Write(vbCrLf)
                    End If
                    Console.Write(R())
                Next

            End While

            Console.SetCursorPosition(intCurrentPositionLeft, intCurrentPositionTop)
            If strOut(i) = vbCr Or strOut(i) = vbLf Then
                Console.Write(vbCrLf)
                Continue For
            End If

            Console.Write(strOut(i))
            intCurrentPositionLeft += 1
            intLooper += 1
        Next

    End Sub
 

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