Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/worldeditadditions/utils/parse/seed.lua

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--- Makes a seed from a string.
-- If the input is a number, it is returned as-is.
-- If the input is a string and can be converted to a number with tonumber(),
-- the output of tonumber() is returned.
-- Otherwise, the string is converted to a number via a simple hashing algorithm
-- (caution: certainlly NOT crypto-secure!).
-- @param {string} str The string to convert.
-- @source https://stackoverflow.com/a/2624210/1460422 The idea came from here
function worldeditadditions.parse.seed(str)
if type(str) == "number" then return str end
if tonumber(str) ~= nil then return tonumber(str) end
local result = 0
for i = 1, #str do
result = (result*91) + (string.byte(str:sub(i, i)) * 31)
end
return result
end