in reply to Re^3: Generating Unique numbers from Unique strings
in thread Generating Unique numbers from Unique strings

> Is the first approach faster than the second?

What prevents you from writing a short script using Benchmark and finding out yourself?

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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