Today’s exercise was Crypto Square. Given some text make it lower case, remove everything that is punctuation or white space then chop it up into blocks making it roughly square shaped. Then take those blocks and glue the nth character of each row together separated by a line break or space. “Potatoes are cool!” => “potatoesarecool” => “pota toes arec ool ” => “ptao ooro teel asc

Input wasn’t working for array references. I thought I fixed that but I guess not. I spent the rest of today adding/debugging the READ, DATA, RESTORE statements. The image is the output that shows that input works with array references and that read/data/restore works. I really should have put an array reference in the read statements shouldn’t I? Ok, quick check, and a small fix later I have confirmed that works now (not going to update the image).