instance method
String#sum
(?::int bits) -> ::Integer
sum(n = 16) → integer
string.c
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static VALUE
rb_str_sum(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str)
{
int bits = 16;
char *ptr, *p, *pend;
long len;
VALUE sum = INT2FIX(0);
unsigned long sum0 = 0;
if (rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 1) && (bits = NUM2INT(argv[0])) < 0) {
bits = 0;
}
ptr = p = RSTRING_PTR(str);
len = RSTRING_LEN(str);
pend = p + len;
while (p < pend) {
if (FIXNUM_MAX - UCHAR_MAX < sum0) {
sum = rb_funcall(sum, '+', 1, LONG2FIX(sum0));
str_mod_check(str, ptr, len);
sum0 = 0;
}
sum0 += (unsigned char)*p;
p++;
}
if (bits == 0) {
if (sum0) {
sum = rb_funcall(sum, '+', 1, LONG2FIX(sum0));
}
}
else {
if (sum == INT2FIX(0)) {
if (bits < (int)sizeof(long)*CHAR_BIT) {
sum0 &= (((unsigned long)1)<<bits)-1;
}
sum = LONG2FIX(sum0);
}
else {
VALUE mod;
if (sum0) {
sum = rb_funcall(sum, '+', 1, LONG2FIX(sum0));
}
mod = rb_funcall(INT2FIX(1), idLTLT, 1, INT2FIX(bits));
mod = rb_funcall(mod, '-', 1, INT2FIX(1));
sum = rb_funcall(sum, '&', 1, mod);
}
}
return sum;
}
Returns a basic n-bit checksum of the characters in self; the checksum is the sum of the binary value of each byte in self, modulo 2**n - 1:
Example
'hello'.sum # => 532 'hello'.sum(4) # => 4 'hello'.sum(64) # => 532 'тест'.sum # => 1405 'こんにちは'.sum # => 2582
This is not a particularly strong checksum.
Related: see Querying.