From: angus@...
Date: 2002-08-13T00:00:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Primary Key Hash help

> I have a huge data file with rows like this:
> 
> AL Prattville  36066  01001 US  01-001-0870 01 001 1 3 0162328 1
> AL Prattville  36067  01001 US  01-001-0870 01 001 1 3 0162328 1
> AL Prattville  36068  01001 US  01-001-0870 01 001 1 3 0162328 1
> 
> The unique key for each row is all columns. I'd like to generate a single
> column unique key that's derived from all the data, so a simple sequential
> number primary key won't do. Any tips on how I could do this in Ruby?

Given

    row = line.split

a unique key could be
    
    row.join

.