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I'm using a hash function I found online that's meant to be quick but it's throwing an error that I don't understand (and as I've cut and paste it, I don't get what the issue can be?). Everything else is working (I used a different hash function initially to test it).

int hash_function(const char* word)
{
unsigned int hash = 0;
for (int i = 0, n = strlen(word); i < n; i++)
    hash = (hash << 2) ^ word[i];
return index % HASHSIZE;
}

The error its throwing me is:

dictionary.c:42:18: error: invalid operands to binary expression ('char *(*)     (const char *, int)' and 'int')
return index % HASHSIZE;
       ~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [dictionary.o] Error 1

Any idea what's wrong? This is the third hash function I've tried to use that hasn't worked once I've put it into my code so I'm obviously missing something!

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The code will return index % HASHSIZE;, but where is index calculated? Maybe index was supposed to be hash?

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  • Oh I'm such an idiot! Thank you! – MelJ79 Jul 3 '16 at 16:08

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