//ERDDAP/com.cohort.util/ScriptString2/md5Hex12

md5Hex12

[JVM]
open fun md5Hex12(password: String): String

This returns the last 12 hex digits from md5Hex (or null if md5 is null), broken into 3 blocks of 4 digits, separated by '_'. I use this as a short, easy to type, repeatable, representation of long strings (e.g., an ERDDAP query URL), sort of like the idea of tinyURL. It performs much better than hashcode or CRC32 when a large number of passwords (or filenames) are encoded and you don't want any collisions. See Projects.testHashFunctions.