how to decode a alphabet

according to wikipedia, a ceasar cypher is the simpliest of cyphers. it's just a shifting of letter an equal distance.

for example, if it's shifted by 1,

b = a
c = b
d = c

if it's shifted by 2,

c = a
d = b
e = c

etc.

is the text you're supposed to decyhper an actual sentence?

how you do it depends on which programming language you're using.

according to the game show wheel of fortune, the letter R, S, T, N, L and E are the most commonly occuring letters in the English language. you can use this to try to figure out what the "shift" is. "the" is also the most comment word. so, look for a 3 character word and add the shift to see if it makes the word "the". if it does, then you've found out how many characters you need to shift to decode the cypher.

yes actually , i am decoding the letters of the alphabet and want to decode
I have already run the Ceasar cypher with a fixed rotation length on the preamble of the U. S. Constitution and captured the output into a file called code.txt. You can get a copy of it from my directory:

cp /afs/umbc.edu/users/b/o/bogar/pub/code.txt .
UNIX allows us to use the contents of a file as input to our program and also capture output from our program into a file. These operations are called redirection. The < is used when you're using a file for input and the > is used when you want to capture the output into a file. You can just think of these symbols as arrows to or from your programs name. Here are some examples of their use:

python lab3.py < preamble.txt
i have to write a program that tries to break the cipher, i dont know if i am doing it right.
#reads input string
input_string = input ("Enter input string: ")
#converts input string to all uppercase
uppercase_string = str.upper(input_string)
rotation_value = 1
for ch in uppercase_string:
    if ch != ' ':
        ascii_value = ord(ch)
        rotate_value = ((ascii_value - ord('A')) + rotation_value)%26 + ord('A')
        rotate_char = chr(rotate_value)
        print(rotate_char)

and also does this program calculate the correct shift amount by finding the letter used most often in the coded text and using the information in the letter frequencies chart shown below?

by visual deduction, i was able to break the cypher in less than one minute. the second word YMJ = THE

you can use this as the basis to determine what the shift is that's needed to decrypt the message. depending on what your assignment is, this probably solves the problem for you. all that's left is to write a program that will translate the jumbled text into english.

how you code your program is up to you. imho, what you presented is very convoluted. there is a simpler way to program the decrypting program.