From: Stanislav Karchebny <berk@...>
Date: 2003-09-09T17:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash-ish and Arrays and Duplicates

>  Currently I have a hash, which key is the fully qualified
>  pathname/file and its value is the md5sum (by the way: Is there a
>  md5sum-generator inside Ruby ?) of that file.

Key = md5sum, values = array of filenames
(feed with "hash[md5(filecontents)] << filename")
this way you know the duplicates names and can find if they are duplicated by 
doing something like

hash.each { |x| puts "dups" if x.size > 1 }

It may be not quite as fast esp. if there are no duplicates, but should work.

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