C#

OriginalGriff wrote:

Which means that we will have to deal with it as maintenance in future...

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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

string inputString = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
char[] chars = new char[inputString.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < inputString.Length; i++)
{
    if (inputString[i] >= 'a' && inputString[i] < 'h') // is it between a and g (lower case only)
        chars[i] = (char)(inputString[i] + 1);         // yes, add 1 to make it the next letter
    else
        chars[i] = inputString[i];                     // no, copy direct to the output buffer
}
Console.WriteLine(chars);

private const string transA = "abcdefghijklmnopqurstuvwxyz";
private const string transB = "bcdefghijklmnopqurstuvwxyza";

char[] chars = new char[inputString.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < inputString.Length; i++)
    {
    int index = transA.IndexOf(inputString[i]);
    chars[i] = index >= 0 ? transB[index] : inputString[i];
    }
string outputString = new string(chars);

OriginalGriff wrote:

Richard's solution will work fine, but a better solution is to have two "translation arrays":

Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

string ss = string.Join("", inputString.Select(ch => (char)(ch + 1)));

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

int offset = '9' + '0';

string ciphered = string.Join("",
    inputString.Select(ch =>
        (char)
        (
            Char.IsDigit(ch) ? offset - ch : ch + 1
        )
    )
);

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

string: TEXTcsharp#2367 
result: SDWSdtibsq#7632

int offset = '9' + '0';
string test = string.Join("", normal.Select(ch => (ch >= 'a' && ch < 'z') ? (char)(ch + 1) : (ch > 'A' && ch <= 'Z') ? (char)(ch - 1) : (ch == 'z') ? (char)'a' : (ch == 'A') ? (char)'Z' : ((char)(Char.IsDigit(ch) ? offset - ch : ch + 1))));