I was wondering how I would hash a string value (ex: “myObjectName”) to int values between 0-19
I’m guaranteed to have no more than 20 unique string values.
Thanks
I was wondering how I would hash a string value (ex: myObjectName) to int
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I was wondering how I would hash a string value (ex: “myObjectName”) to int values between 0-19
I’m guaranteed to have no more than 20 unique string values.
Thanks
Adding my comment as an answer as suggested:
I would suggest that hashing isn’t the exact path you should follow here.
One method would be using a dictionary (like the built in data structure in Python) that has a key-value pair of your string and a number from 1-20 (or 0 – 19)
As you read or see each string, you could check to see if a dictionary entry exists, if so, do whatever needs to be done, if not, create a new dictionary entry with the next available number (generated by looking at the number of existing entries in the dictionary).