Decrypt the encoded string with help of Matrix as per given encryption decryption technique

Last Updated : 14 Mar, 2022

Given an encoded (or encrypted) string S of length N, an integer M. The task is to decrypt the encrypted string and print it. The encryption and decryption techniques are given as:

Encryption: The original string is placed in a Matrix of M rows and N/M columns, such that the first character of the Original text or string is placed on the top-left cell to the bottom-right manner. If last row is reached, then again go to the top row, and start from the next column.

For example: If string is “geeks”, M = 2, then the string will be encrypted in below manner

Then traverse the matrix row wise and print the characters as they appear.

Therefore the above string will be encrypted as = “ges ek”

Decryption: Traverse the matrix diagonally in the same manner as it was encrypted and find the actual string.

Examples:

Input: “GSRE_ _ _E_ _K_ _ _EFGS_ _ _KOE” (Here ‘_’ means a space), 4
Output: “GEEKS FOR GEEKS”
Explanation: See the image below for understanding the approach.

Here column number is 6.
So, the traversing starts from (0, 0) position, then goes upto the end of the row, means from (0, 0) –> (1, 1)–>(2, 2)–>(3, 3)–>(4, 4). T
hen get to the first row, and start from the next, means from (0, 1)–>(1, 2)–>(2, 3)->(3, 4) and continues upto it reaches to the end of the given string.

Input: “GEEKSFORGEEKS”, 1
Output: “GEEKSFORGEEKS”
Explanation: There is only one row. so the decoded string will be as same as the given encoded string.

Input: “abc de”, 2
Output: “adbec”

Approach: First, find the number of columns. Then, start traversing. Follow the below steps to solve the problem:

For each of the columns, go up to the length of the string starting from the i’th row, and after each traversal increase the iterating value to column+1.
Because, here traversal is done diagonally, and here the next diagonal character will be after column number plus one.

For example, in the below picture, the X is a character, whose next diagonal character is XX, and the column number where X is present is 2, the next character row number is just one greater than the previous.

At the time of traversing add the characters into an empty string. Then check, if there is any space at the end of the string or not, if it is, then just delete it.

At last, print that string, and this will be the decoded string/desired string.

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

C++

// C++ program for the above approach
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
// Function to find the desire string
string decodeString(string encodedText, int rows)
{
 
    // Stores the length of the string
    int len = encodedText.size();
 
    // Stores the number of columns
    int cols = len / rows;
 
    // Declaring an empty string
    string res;
    for (int i = 0; i < cols; ++i)
        for (int j = i; j < len; j += cols + 1)
            // Adding the characters
            // into the empty string
            res += encodedText[j];
 
    // If their any space at the end,
    // delete it
    while (res.back() == ' ') {
        res.pop_back();
    }
    return res;
}
 
// Driver Code
int main()
{
 
    string S = "GSRE   E  K   EFGS   KOE";
    int row = 4;
    cout << decodeString(S, row) << endl;
    return 0;
}

Java

// Java program for the above approach
class GFG {
 
  // Function to find the desire string
  static String decodeString(String encodedText, int rows) {
 
    // Stores the length of the string
    int len = encodedText.length();
 
    // Stores the number of columns
    int cols = len / rows;
 
    // Declaring an empty string
    String res = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < cols; ++i) 
    {
      for (int j = i; j < len; j += cols + 1)
      {
        // Adding the characters
        // into the empty string
        res += encodedText.charAt(j);
      }
    }
 
    // If their any space at the end,
    // delete it
    while (res.charAt(res.length() - 1) == ' ') {
      res = res.substring(0, res.length() - 2);
    }
    return res;
  }
 
  // Driver Code
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    String S = "GSRE   E  K   EFGS   KOE";
    int row = 4;
 
    System.out.println(decodeString(S, row));
 
  }
}
 
// This code is contributed by gfgking

Python3

# Python code for the above approach 
 
# Function to find the desire string
def decodeString(encodedText, rows):
 
    # Stores the length of the string
    _len = len(encodedText)
 
    # Stores the number of columns
    cols = _len // rows
 
    # Declaring an empty string
    res = "";
    for i in range(cols):
        for j in range(i, _len, cols + 1):
         
            # Adding the characters
            # into the empty string
            res += encodedText[j];
 
    # If their any space at the end,
    # delete it
    while (res[len(res) - 1] == ' '):
        res = res[0: len(res) - 1];
    return res;
 
 
# Driver Code
S = "GSRE   E  K   EFGS   KOE";
row = 4;
print(decodeString(S, row))
 
# This code is contributed by Saurabh Jaiswal

C#

// C# program for the above approach
using System;
class GFG
{
 
// Function to find the desire string
static string decodeString(string encodedText, int rows)
{
 
    // Stores the length of the string
    int len = encodedText.Length;
 
    // Stores the number of columns
    int cols = len / rows;
 
    // Declaring an empty string
    string res = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < cols; ++i) {
        for (int j = i; j < len; j += cols + 1) {
            // Adding the characters
            // into the empty string
            res += encodedText[j];
        }
    }
  
    // If their any space at the end,
    // delete it
    while (res[res.Length - 1] == ' ') {
        res = res.Remove(res.Length - 1);
    }
    return res;
}
 
// Driver Code
public static void Main()
{
    string S = "GSRE   E  K   EFGS   KOE";
    int row = 4;
 
    Console.Write(decodeString(S, row));
 
}
}
 
// This code is contributed by Samim Hossain Mondal.

Javascript

<script>
      // JavaScript code for the above approach 
 
      // Function to find the desire string
      function decodeString(encodedText, rows) {
 
          // Stores the length of the string
          let len = encodedText.length;
 
          // Stores the number of columns
          let cols = Math.floor(len / rows);
 
          // Declaring an empty string
          let res = "";
          for (let i = 0; i < cols; ++i)
              for (let j = i; j < len; j += cols + 1)
               
                  // Adding the characters
                  // into the empty string
                  res += encodedText[j];
 
          // If their any space at the end,
          // delete it
          while (res[res.length - 1] == ' ') {
              res = res.slice(0, res.length - 1);
          }
          return res;
      }
 
      // Driver Code
      let S = "GSRE   E  K   EFGS   KOE";
      let row = 4;
      document.write(decodeString(S, row))
 
// This code is contributed by Potta Lokesh
  </script>