Okay, my friend came up with this line of garbled junk that he says is a real sentence just encoded. So rather than sit down and try all sorts different combinations, I'd rather write a program to figure it out. I've come up with this so far. I want to assign a value to each different character in the coded text string and keep that constant. Then I'd like to give each ASCII character it's own value. From there I want the ASCII characters with the same values as the coded string to plug themselves in and spit out whatever it turns out to be. The chances of it working the first time are slim to none so I'd want the values assigned to the ASCII values to increment by one until every ASCII character has been assigned every possible number. I'm kind of confused on how I'd get started though. Please help.