Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
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"joe" <jc*****@gmail. comwrote in message
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Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
It's inherently impossible to collapse 36^N unique URLs to 36^(N/4) unique
tiny urls.
However there's a hash function on my websites. It's in one of the free
chapters under Basic Algorithms. I recommend that you split the string into
2, and generate 2 unsigned longs. The chance of a collision is so low as to
be negligible. Then use the modulus operation to reduce to alpahanumeric.
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Malcolm McLean wrote:
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"joe" <jc*****@gmail. comwrote in message
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>Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url
with letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique.
THanks.
It's inherently impossible to collapse 36^N unique URLs to 36^(N/4)
unique tiny urls.
However there's a hash function on my websites. It's in one of the
free chapters under Basic Algorithms. I recommend that you split the
string into 2, and generate 2 unsigned longs. The chance of a
collision is so low as to be negligible. Then use the modulus
operation to reduce to alpahanumeric.
Also a Google search seems to show up a lot of TinyURL generators though
not, AFAICS, in C. Maybe the OP can study the code and rewrite it in C.
"Malcolm McLean" <re*******@btin ternet.comwrite s:
"joe" <jc*****@gmail. comwrote in message
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>Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
It's inherently impossible to collapse 36^N unique URLs to 36^(N/4)
unique tiny urls.
However there's a hash function on my websites. It's in one of the
free chapters under Basic Algorithms. I recommend that you split the
string into 2, and generate 2 unsigned longs. The chance of a
collision is so low as to be negligible.
I have a feeling this is a bad idea[1]. The Bernstein hash function
(which is the one on your) site uses unsigned long but will work just
as well with any unsigned integer type. If the OP has access to
longer integers, it seems safer to simply use a longer integer that
than generate two hashes from two parts of the string.
[1] I have no formal argument in support of this, just the feeling
that, since URLs often have similar parts you are wasting the hash
function's mixing ability if you split the string. Anyway, even if
there is no reason to worry here, why take the risk -- unless, of
course, you don't have longer integer types.
--
Ben.
"Ben Bacarisse" <be********@bsb .me.ukwrote in message
I have a feeling this is a bad idea[1]. The Bernstein hash function
(which is the one on your) site uses unsigned long but will work just
as well with any unsigned integer type. If the OP has access to
longer integers, it seems safer to simply use a longer integer that
than generate two hashes from two parts of the string.
[1] I have no formal argument in support of this, just the feeling
that, since URLs often have similar parts you are wasting the hash
function's mixing ability if you split the string. Anyway, even if
there is no reason to worry here, why take the risk -- unless, of
course, you don't have longer integer types.
You might well be right. If two URLs share the same introduction, which is
extremely plausible, then effectively you are wasting a long.
--
Free games and programming goodies. http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~bgy1mm
joe wrote:
>
Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
Yes. No. You're welcome.
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[page]: <http://cbfalconer.home .att.net>
Try the download section.
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May be i could get the char value of each letter multiply it by the
position in the string and come up with a number. Just an idea.
On Feb 22, 2:31 pm, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@yah oo.comwrote:
joe wrote:
Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
Yes. No. You're welcome.
--
[mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
[page]: <http://cbfalconer.home .att.net>
Try the download section.
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Malcolm McLean wrote, On 22/02/08 15:23:
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"Ben Bacarisse" <be********@bsb .me.ukwrote in message
>I have a feeling this is a bad idea[1]. The Bernstein hash function
(which is the one on your) site uses unsigned long but will work just
as well with any unsigned integer type. If the OP has access to
longer integers, it seems safer to simply use a longer integer that
than generate two hashes from two parts of the string.
[1] I have no formal argument in support of this, just the feeling
that, since URLs often have similar parts you are wasting the hash
function's mixing ability if you split the string. Anyway, even if
there is no reason to worry here, why take the risk -- unless, of
course, you don't have longer integer types.
You might well be right. If two URLs share the same introduction, which
is extremely plausible, then effectively you are wasting a long.
There is also a significant possibility of two URLs sharing a
significant tail. E.g. http://www.somesite/area/somewhere?p...t=prettyformat
--
Flash Gordon
joe wrote:
May be i could get the char value of each letter multiply it by the
position in the string and come up with a number. Just an idea.
Please don't top-post. Your replies belong following or interspersed
with properly trimmed quotes. See the majority of other posts in the
newsgroup, or:
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html >
joe <jc*****@gmail. comwrites:
Hello anyone knows how to write a funtion to genereate a tiny url with
letters and numbers only. Something almost always unique. THanks.
May be i could get the char value of each letter multiply it by the
position in the string and come up with a number. Just an idea.
[Top posting corrected]. That is one way, but there has been a lot of
study of how to turn a string into a number and your method has no
particular advantage over others that have been found to be useful.
The advice you've had to use a known hash function is good advice.
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