scratching my head over this.
I have 350 strings average 90 chars long, all strings are unique. Now, I want to generate a unique id for each string.
I tried the sum of chars in the string which gave two doubles, the returned sum is not unique enough. Anybody any idea how to approach this? I thought of hash(), is that the best solution?
abcdef will return the same as abcdfe
If you have a fixed set of strings and you will only need to look those up then find a minimal perfect hash function. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function