Assume the built-in function `Ascii(c)`, where `c` is a one character string, will return an integer containing the ASCII value of that character. Write a function that accepts a string, uses `Ascii(c)` and additional processing to produce a one way hash value from the string, and returns the hash value as a string. You may assume the initial string is not empty and contains several characters.
//one way hash using ascii
static string hashViaAscii(String S)
{
int hashVal = 0;
for (int k = 0; k < S.Length; k++)
hashVal += Ascii(S[k]); //gets Ascii value, add them all
return ((hashVal % HASH_TABLE_SIZE).ToString()); //return sum % table size as string
}
I don't think is a good approach. How can this be improved?