proper way to calculate toHash() for string

[aki via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 30 June 2015 at 19:36:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 30/06/15 16:19, aki wrote:
>
>> Please suggest me if anyone have an idea.
>
> You can use TypeInfo.getHash [1] to get the hash of a given 
> value. Something like:
>
> string a = "foo";
> typeid(a).getHash(&a)
>
> [1] http://dlang.org/phobos/object.html#.TypeInfo.getHash

Wow, this is what I was looking for.
It's generic way. Thank you for good suggestion.
Your 2 lines code is also a good explanation for the
manual of getHash. Because it's not obvious what is
the argument for the getHash.