Subject Re: hash.cc From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net> Date Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:10:46 -0800 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2/29/2024 3:16 AM, Sean wrote: > > If I may ask a noob question. I wanted to use the hash function to check whether data within a dataset has changed between two days. This to my brain seems like a good use. > > When I run the hash, the values populated change for each iteration I run. So each rows hash is never the same which null and voids my use case - am I potentially doing something wrong (more like what am I doing wrong?!). You are doing nothing wrong, hash should be unique. Period. This not meant to be something you can decode ... Suggest if you want it to be something consistent each time you look at Encryption instead -- there are several routines in the dUFLP for that. Those can be decoded/unencrypted ... Ken -- *Ken Mayer* Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm dBASE Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/00_Preface.htm dBASE Web Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/WebTutorial/00_Menu.htm dBASE DOS to Windows Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/DtoWTutorial/00_Menu.htm