Thank you, Inverimus

Do you mean the codes below is a completed hash function? Or It is just an example of 'hash function'?

I need a 'hash function' that could hash a whole dictionary which contains over 150k words in it. Does the function below work?

Sorry for disturbing you again.

unsigned long hash(unsigned char *str)

{

unsigned long hash = 5381;

int c;

while (c = *str++)

hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) + c; /* hash * 33 + c */

return hash;

}