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Thanks for the posting. Sorry for not being clearer. By string of letters i meant a name like "V$CEBPA". So if I can convert this string to a numerical value, I can use it to generate the color which will be unique to this identifier. Thanks Nagesh
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Re^3: Getting numeric value of a alphabetic string
by sk (Curate) on Aug 05, 2005 at 07:01 UTC
    Thanks. I completely missed the point! Please see Zaxo's post. You can basically attach a key to a value in a hash. Which should give what you want

    -SK

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