Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 11/14/05 22:08

On Mon, November 14, 2005 12:41 pm, 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. :)

Why an integer?...

For that matter, down in the guts, it's all just an integer,
technically...

Do you need a 32-bit integer for some reason?

Something involving md5, substr, and http://php.net/pack should sort
of work.

You're probably better off re-thinking your "needs to be an integer"
requirement, though, honestly, unless there is some really really
compelling driving external force at work.



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