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# Reading Between the Lines
### main.c
The code for main.c is given and the indentation's are `an absolute mess` as said in the brief
Although I spent a fair amount of time trying to compile the code and run I eventually went for a new approach
The flag was in fact hidden in the indentations and spaces as binary
### I then wrote a python script to extract all of the codes and create the flag
```python
File = open("main.c","r").readlines() # Open the file
strippedFile = []
for line in File:
newline = line.strip()
if newline != "":
strippedFile.append(line)
strippedFile = "".join(strippedFile)
# This removes all the lines which are only newlines
binary = ""
for char in strippedFile:
if char == "\t": # Tabs are 1's
binary += "1"
if char == " ": # Spaces are 0's
binary += "0"
if char == "\n": # New lines are spaces
binary += " "
flag = binary.split() # Separate the binary into an array
for binary in flag:
print(chr(int(binary,2)), end="") # Convert each binary number to decimal and then to its ascii form
print()
```
```
$ python3 extract.py
ractf{R34d1ngBetw33nChar4ct3r5}
```
