Which underscores the point I made earlier about adding collision detection and rehashing logic to whatever algorithm you use. One workround I've seen: 

| handwaving  here...
my @i = split(//,$url); # put each letter in it's own bin
my $j=0;   # Initailize our 
my $k=1;   # hashing increment values
my @m=();  # workspace
foreach my $n(@i){
       my $q=ord($n);  # ASCII for character
       $k += $j;       # Increment our hash offset
       $q += $k;       # add our "old" value
       $j = $k;        # store that. 
       push @m,$q;     # save the offsetted value 
}
       
my $hashval=0;  #initialize our hash value
# Generate that
map { $hashval = ($hashval + $_) % 10000} @m;

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Using that method ABC.html and CBA.html now have different values because each letter position's value gets bumped up increasingly from left to right.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re^5: Using filepath method to identify an .html page by blue_cowdawg
in thread Using filepath method to identify an .html page by Nik

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