One way to do it would be to split the string into individual characters and sum the ord values for each character. The problem with that is it's easy to get the same answer for different strings. Perhaps you could concatenate the ord values into a string of numbers. This would have the advantage that you could reconstruct the original string from the numbers.

use strict;
use warnings;

my @strs = qw{smpl95 smpd9 fuj324};

foreach my $str ( @strs )
{
    print qq{Original: $str\n};
    my $numStr = there($str);
    print qq{Numified: $numStr\n};
    my $decoded = backAgain($numStr);
    print qq{ Decoded: $decoded\n};
    print q{-} x 25, qq{\n};
}

sub there
{
    my $str = shift;
    my $numStr;
    $numStr .= sprintf q{%03d}, ord for split m{}, $str;
    return $numStr;
}

sub backAgain
{
    my $numStr = shift;
    (my $str = $numStr) =~ s{(...)}{chr $1}eg;
    return $str;
}

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Here's the output.

Original: smpl95
Numified: 115109112108057053
 Decoded: smpl95
-------------------------
Original: smpd9
Numified: 115109112100057
 Decoded: smpd9
-------------------------
Original: fuj324
Numified: 102117106051050052
 Decoded: fuj324
-------------------------

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I don't know if this is anywhere near what you are looking for. Perhaps you could clarify you question?

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: convert string of chars and numerics to a numeric value by johngg
in thread convert string of chars and numerics to a numeric value by js1

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