hash_sha1()

Returns a sha1 hash value of the source input.

Syntax

hash_sha1(source)

Parameters

Returns

The sha1 hash value of the given scalar, encoded as a hex string (a string of characters, each two of which represent a single Hex number between 0 and 255).

Examples

print 
    h1=hash_sha1("World"),
    h2=hash_sha1(datetime(2020-01-01))

Output

The following example uses the hash_sha1() function to aggregate StormEvents based on State’s SHA1 hash value.

StormEvents 
| summarize StormCount = count() by State, StateHash=hash_sha1(State)
| top 5 by StormCount desc

Output