On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:40:29PM +0000, Simon Wistow wrote: > I need to turna filename into a numeric id in a repeatable manner (i.e > the same filename must always produce the same number). > > My first thought (md5_hex the name and then hex the reuslt to get an > integer) gets an overflow error unless I truncate to the first 8 > characters. Or use Math::BigInt. --