Week7-Nato

function natoText = textToNato(plainText)

% Define the NATO alphabet code words
NatoCode = {'Alpha', 'Bravo', 'Charlie', 'Delta', 'Echo', 'Foxtrot', 'Golf', 'Hotel', 'India', ...
            'Juliet', 'Kilo', 'Lima', 'Mike', 'November', 'Oscar', 'Papa', 'Quebec', 'Romeo', ...
	    'Sierra', 'Tango', 'Uniform', 'Victor', 'Whiskey', 'Xray', 'Yankee', 'Zulu'};

% Define the corresponding normal alphabet
Alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';

% Create initial empty natoText
natoText = '';

% Loop over the letters in the input text
for k = 1:length(plainText)
    % Current letter
    Letter = upper(plainText(k));
    
    % Find the corresponding NATO code
    code = NatoCode{Letter == Alphabet};

    % Put code at the end of natoText
    natoText = [natoText code];

    % Put in a dash, if this is not the last letter
    if k ~= length(plainText)
         natoText = [natoText '-'];
    end
end