Hi, folks:

it might not be a Perl specific question, but I'd rather find a Perl solution. :-) I have over 25,000K unique strings(5-50 chars in length) and I need to generate an 12-digit unique/random hex-decimal ID for each record and import them into MySQL. new records having a different field value might be inputed later. So far, I can use MySQL's auto_increment column to make an absolutely unique seed and adjust them to 12-digit. But it looks not flexible for new input in the future.. Is there any method(hashing,MD5 or whatever) that I can use with Perl to generate 12-digit unique/random keys against over 25,000K records.

many thanks

lihao

In reply to Question: Generate unique/random 12-digit keys for 25,000K records, howto?? by lihao

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