C++ ONLY

In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for encrypting and decrypting some given message through a series of well-defined steps. Commonly called codes, there are various types of ciphers ranging from fairly simple to complex. One of the most widely known encryption schemes is called a Caesar Cipher or Shift Cipher. The Caesar Cipher encrypts a letter by substituting for it with another letter that is a fixed distance, or shift, away in the alphabet. For example, to use a shift of +3 in a Caesar Cipher, we would substitute the letter D for A, E for B, and so on, as illustrated below.

As you can see in the image above, each letter is being replaced with the letter 3 positions forward in the alphabet. For this problem you will be creating a function which performs both encryption and decryption of a message using this scheme.

Write a function caesarCipher which will either encrypt a message or decrypt a coded message using a Caesar Cipher.

• Your function MUST be named caesarCipher

• Your function takes three input arguments: a string message, an int key, and a bool flag

• Your function must return the resulting string from the encoding or decoding algorithm NOT print using cout.

• message will be a string in all capital letters with spaces. Unencoded messages will be strings such as I LIKE CHOCOLATE or HELLO WORLD, and encoded messages will be strings such as L OLNH FKRFRODWH or KHOOR ZRUOG.

• key will be an integer that specifies how many positions in the alphabet are being shifted in the encoding or decoding process. A valid key must be between 0 and 25. If your function is given a value outside of this range, it should return ERROR;

• flag will be a boolean variable that controls whether your function will be encrypting or decrypting the given message. A value of true will mean your function is encoding the given message, and a value of false will mean your function is decoding it.

Example:

• If the input arguments are caesarCipher(ABCD, 2, true), the function should return the string CDEF.

• If the input arguments are caesarCipher(TOY STORY, 27, true), the function should return the string ERROR.

• If the input arguments are caesarCipher(ABCD, 2, false), the function should return the string YZAB.

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