Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > my $integer = unpack( "%32C*", "$author$title" ) % 65535; If you want these to be repeatable, you should preceded that by: (a) unicode normalisation (b) whitespace normalisation (c) case folding Probably in that order. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional RepositoryReceived on Sun May 30 2010 - 19:16:39 EDT