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Julius Caesar protected his confidential information by encrypting it using a cipher. Caesar's cipher shifts each letter by a number of letters. If the shift takes you past the end of the alphabet, just rotate back to the front of the alphabet. In the case of a rotation by 3, w, x, y and z would map to z, a, b and c.

Original alphabet:      abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Alphabet rotated +3:    defghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabc

Example

The alphabet is rotated by , matching the mapping above. The encrypted string is .

Note: The cipher only encrypts letters; symbols, such as -, remain unencrypted.

Function Description

Complete the caesarCipher function in the editor below.

caesarCipher has the following parameter(s):

  • string s: cleartext
  • int k: the alphabet rotation factor

Returns

  • string: the encrypted string

Input Format

The first line contains the integer, , the length of the unencrypted string.
The second line contains the unencrypted string, .
The third line contains , the number of letters to rotate the alphabet by.

Constraints



is a valid ASCII string without any spaces.

Sample Input

11
middle-Outz
2

Sample Output

okffng-Qwvb

Explanation

Original alphabet:      abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Alphabet rotated +2:    cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzab

m -> o
i -> k
d -> f
d -> f
l -> n
e -> g
-    -
O -> Q
u -> w
t -> v
z -> b
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