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collision in hashing occur in this code I did, how can I resolve it in the code? I only fail to found NG CHEA YEAT's name.

What I have tried:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#define MNAME 80
#define MDIR 30
#define MBUFF 2916
#define MHASH 521

struct List{
    int studID;
    char name[MNAME];
};

int comparator(const void* p, const void* q){
    return strcmp(((struct List*)p)->name,((struct List*)q)->name);
}

int readData(struct List dir[]);
int hashfunc(char *name);

void hash(struct List dir[], int ndir, int hashtable[]);

int search(char *key, struct List s[], int hashtable[]);

int main(void){
    
    int ndir, result, hashtable[MHASH];

    char query[MNAME];

	struct List s[27];
	int count, i, j;
	char temp[27];
	
	FILE *fptr; //Associate the file pointer to the rec file
	fptr = fopen("rec.txt", "r");
	
    //Check of data file could be opened successfully
  if (fptr == NULL){
    printf("Error opening input file");
    return 1;
  }
  
   for(count = 0; count < 27; count++){
       fscanf(fptr,"%d", &s[count].studID);
       fgets(s[count].name,40,fptr);
   }
	
	//sort
    qsort(s,27,sizeof(struct List),comparator);

    printf("Sorted Names\n");
	for(i=0;i<27;i++){
		printf("%d%s", i+1, s[i].name);
	}

  fclose(fptr);
	
  ndir=readData(s);
  hash(s,ndir,hashtable);
 
  puts("\nName to search>>");
  fgets(query,MNAME-1,stdin);
  query[strlen(query)-1]='\0';

  result=search(query,s,hashtable);  
  if(result==-1) 
    printf("Not Found");
  else 
    printf("%s's id is %d\n",
            s[result].name, s[result].studID);
		
return 0;
}

int readData(struct List dir[]){
  FILE *fdir=fopen("rec.txt","r");
  char buff[MBUFF];
  int i=0;
  
    while(i<MDIR && fgets(buff,MBUFF-1,fdir)){
    dir[i].studID=atol(strtok(buff,":"));
    strcpy(dir[i].name,strtok(NULL,"\n"));
    i++;
 }
 return(i);
}

int hashfunc(char *name){
  long sum=0;
  int k=0;
  while(name[k]){
    sum+=name[k];
    k++;
  }
  return( (int) (sum % MHASH) );
}

void hash(struct List dir[], int ndir, int hashtable[]){
  int k;
  int index;
  for(k=0;k<ndir;k++){
    index = hashfunc(dir[k].name);
    hashtable[index]=k;
  }
}

int search(char *key, struct List dir[], int hashtable[]){
  int index=hashfunc(key);
  int k=hashtable[index];

  if(strcmp(key,dir[k].name)==0)
    return(k);
  else 
    return(-1);
}


Here is the text file:
1171203258:HOSSAIN, MARUF
1181202660:KUHAN RAJ A/L TAMIL CHEL WAM
1181203465:PONG KAI SUN
1191102443:FAIZA OSAMA ABDALLA HASHIM
1201302289:LEE JIA WEI
1201302368:SHEIKH, AHNAF AZMAIN
1201100584:HI CHIA LING
1201101509:NG CHEA YEAT
1191103201:PHUAH CHEE HAOU
1201100879:MOSTAFA ARABY MADBOULY AHMED
1191103215:TONG JUN YANG
1191103119:ANG QIZHENG
1171302286:DARWIN KUMAR A/L MUNIAN
1181101192:HAIZUN NAJWA BINTI MOHD RIFIN
1201100926:NG XUE NIE
1191302417:ALMARHOON, ALI HUSSAIN A
1201100225:HEMAN RAO A/L SUBRAMANIAM
1181100823:LIM ZHEN BANG
1161202587:SOHEIL PRAKASAN SUPPAN
1201100603:AVINASH MURALI
1181101858:CHEAH KOK YEW
1191103071:GAN WEI TONG
1201100301:KEVIN THAM ZHENG YIT
1201100648:LIM CHER AIK
1201302222:SHIVAA RUTRAN A/L NAGATHEESAN
1201100779:TAN WEI XIANG
1191100919:WONG HONG WEI
Posted
Updated 13-Apr-22 1:56am

Each hash item should be a node of a linked list, instead of plain integer, e.g.
C
struct HashItem
{
  int id;
  char * name;
  HashItem * next;
};
See, for instance Hash table - Wikipedia - Collision resolution[^].

If you can, use C++, the standard library containers would make your life easier.
 
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Rick York 13-Apr-22 12:30pm    
I prefer a more generic hash table organization which for this one means id is replaced with a pointer to this person's "List" structure. The members of the structure would be :
typedef struct _HashItem
{
   char * key;
   void * pData;
   struct _HashItem * pNext;
};
hopefully that resembles C syntax. Anyway, it's essentially the same as what you have but it can work with practically any data.
CPallini 14-Apr-22 1:59am    
I prefer a std::list in a std::unordered_map ;-)
Or, better, a std::unordered_multimap.
The hash is to weak, so you need some better hashing algorithms, take a lot at these proven hash functions.

At least you will see that your function is way to simple for that problem.
 
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