Problem 751. Implement simple rotation cypher

Created by Doug Hull

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jo gayong on 5 Jul 2019

I find this problem challenging.

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TAYALAN SIVALINGAM on 29 Dec 2016

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Liang MA on 10 Apr 2014

Covered negative shift this time

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Anthony on 9 Apr 2014

very straight forward solution that passes test suite but does not handle example in description correctly.

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shen on 31 Oct 2013

hello, what if shift >= 52 or shift < 0?

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Daniel Pereira on 16 Apr 2013

Does this work for negative shifts?

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Nicholas Howe on 5 Oct 2012

This is a sneaky way to get around the prohibition against using eval!

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