hash function

Hello everyone,


I have 10,000 strings and I want to develop a hash function, to convert string into int32 type. And the purpose is to let the 10,000 hash result distributed linearly as much as possible from Int32.MinValue to Int32.MaxValue.

Any ideas or reference documents?


thanks in advance,
George

What is wrong with GetHashCode ? From the help it seems to be exactly what you are looking for...