G,
> Ascii Values? Or am I being way to simple here?
See my post to Neven. I am just worried that strings may be heaps long and
they don't fit into say a longword.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Greg Amer
Sent: Wednesday, 18 October 2000 13:54
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: [Q] Convert a given string to a magic number....
Ascii Values? Or am I being way to simple here?
"Donovan J. Edye" wrote:
>
> 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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> TVisualBasic = Class(None);
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