Range of hashcodes in case of strings

Question

I have strings coming in my code and i take hashcode of them for some purpose but i was wondering that is there any range of these hashcodes because this may happen that the number of strings coming exceed the range of hashcodes.So what is the range of hashcodes?

Answer 1

The range of hashCode is the range of int. For any desired hashCode(), there is a String with that hashCode.