From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2002-08-13T00:19:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Primary Key Hash help

> > 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

True - but the result would be of varying length and a bit cumbersome. I was
hoping for something along the lines of what Philipp replied with (MD5
hash). The MD5 hash is still a little cumbersome, but less than just joining
all the data together.

Thanks for the reply.

Chris
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