G'Day,

Another obscure one. Has anyone got any suggestins on how to turn an
arbitrary string into a unique number?

Eg 'ab' = 123
    'ba' = 456
    'abc' = 1234

etc.

My first thought was

Original String --> Apply MD5 Hash --> StringOfFixed length -->
MagicStringToNoEncoding = Desired Result

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