Implement Caesar Cipher | Dataford Interview Questions

Write a function to implement a Caesar Cipher integration or similar string manipulation task.

Implement caesar_cipher(text, shift). Return a new string where each English alphabetic character is shifted forward by shift positions, wrapping from z to a and preserving letter case. Leave spaces, digits, punctuation, and other nonalphabetic characters unchanged. Positive and negative shifts are valid.

Input: a string text and an integer shift.

Output: the transformed string.

Examples: caesar_cipher("Hello, World!", 3) returns "Khoor, Zruog!"; caesar_cipher("abc", -1) returns "zab".

Constraints: 0 <= len(text) <= 1000; -10^9 <= shift <= 10^9; input contains standard ASCII characters.

Constraints

0 <= len(text) <= 1000
-10^9 <= shift <= 10^9
Input contains standard ASCII characters
Preserve uppercase and lowercase letters separately
Leave nonalphabetic characters unchanged

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def caesar_cipher(text, shift):

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