hi everyone. i am writing a small caeser cipher program in java for a lab is my cs class. I am sure that most of it is generally okay, but when i run the program it will not return the newly encrypted or decrypted code. Why??? is there something wong with my methods?

here is my code:

/*
 * Assingment 4 - CaeserCipher.java
 * 
 * Encrypting Sample Run:
 * Would you like to (e)ncrypt or (d)ecrypt some text? <e>
 * 
 * What is the text you'd like to encrypt?
 * <Attack at dawn.>
 * 
 * What is the shift value? <5>
 * 
 * The encrypted text is:
 * FYYFHP FY IFBS.
 * 
 * Decrypting Sample Run:
 * Would you like to (e)ncrypt or (d)ecrypt some text? <d>
 * 
 * What is the text you'd like to decrypt?
 * <RJXXFLJ WJHJNAJI.>
 * 
 * What is the shift value? <5>
 * 
 * The encrypted text is:
 * MESSAGE RECIEVED.
 * 
 */

package caesercipher;
import java.util.*;

public class CaeserCipher {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        String encryptOption;
        
        //Prompt user to encrypt or decrypt
        System.out.print("Would you like to (e)ncrypt or (d)ecrypt? ");
        encryptOption = keyboard.nextLine();
        
        String originalText;
        int shiftValue; 
        
        //User chooses to encrypt original text
        if (encryptOption.equalsIgnoreCase("e")){
            System.out.println("What text would you like to encrypt?");
            originalText = keyboard.nextLine();
            
            //Prompt user for shift value
            System.out.print("\nWhat is the shift value? ");
            shiftValue = keyboard.nextInt();
            
            //Return encrypted string
            String encryptedText = encrypt(originalText , shiftValue);
            
            //Print result to user
            System.out.println("\nThe encrypted text is:\n" + encryptedText);
        }
        //User chooses to decrypt original text
        else if (encryptOption.equalsIgnoreCase("d")){
            System.out.println("What text would you like to decrypt?");
            originalText = keyboard.nextLine();
            
            //Prompt user for shift value
            System.out.print("\nWhat is the shift value? ");
            shiftValue = keyboard.nextInt();
            
            //Return decrypted string
            String decryptedText = decrypt(originalText , shiftValue);
            
            //Print result to user
            System.out.println("\nThe decrypted text is:\n" + decryptedText);
        }
        
    }
    
    //rotate and change chars
    public static String rotate(String userString, int shiftValue) {
        
        String convertedText = "";
        for(int i = 0; i < userString.length(); i++){
        char lowerLetter = userString.charAt(i);
        
        //Convert to uppercase
        char upperLetter = Character.toUpperCase(lowerLetter);
        int charNumber = upperLetter;
        
        //Apply shift, remembering to wrap text
        int rotateShift = (charNumber + shiftValue) % 26;
        char shiftLetter = (char) rotateShift;
        
        //Create new string of shifted chars
        convertedText += shiftLetter;
        }
      return convertedText;
    }
    
    //encrypt
    public static String encrypt(String userString, int shiftValue) {
        String encryptedString = rotate(userString , shiftValue);
        return encryptedString;
    }
    
    public static String decrypt(String userString, int shiftValue) {
        int negativeShiftValue = (-1) * (shiftValue);
        String decryptedString = rotate(userString , negativeShiftValue);
        return decryptedString;
    }
}

In your rotate you seem to assume that chars 'A' to 'Z' correspond to numeric values 0 - 25
But that's not true. The letters are encoded as UniCode (same as ASCII for the English alphabet) so 'A' == 65 and 'Z' == 90.

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