Posted by Curt Zirzow on 11/14/05 21:06

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:41:53AM -0800, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Does anyone know if there's a handy way to create a numeric hash from
> a text string? I'm trying to generate an integer as a sort of quick &
> dirty checksum for text strings. Needs to be a decimal integer, not
> hex or otherwise. Any clever ideas appreciated. :)

This should work for a dirty checksum:
http://php.net/crc32



Curt.
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