[erlang-questions] checksum calculation

[jm]

Is this what you had in mind? (NB: typed directly into email and is 
unchecked).

checksum(B) when is_binary(B) ->
     checksum(B, 0).

checksum(<<>>, Csum) ->             %% this is the terminating case
  Csum;
checksum(<<N, Rest>>, Csum) ->  %% this is the general cas eyou already had
  checksum(Rest, Csum bxor N).


Hope that helps.

Jeff.

Gamoto wrote:
> I have a string of bytes and would like to compute the checksum which is the xor of all bytes.
>
> Let S the string, N the current byte
>
> checksum( <<N,Rest>>,Csum) ->
>   checksum(Rest,Csum bxor N);
>
> The problems are: I don't know how to start (checksum(<<S>>) ???) and how to finish !
> First of all, is it the correct approach ?
> (I suppose I rather should make Csum Exclusive-OR N modulo 8     ???)
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