use warnings; use strict; use Encode qw/encode/; use Digest::MD5 qw/md5/; use MIME::Base64 qw/encode_base64/; my $string = "7512"; my $md5b64 = encode_base64( md5( encode( 'UTF-16LE', $string, Encode::FB_CROAK|Encode::LEAVE_SRC ) ), "" ); print "Generated String is: MD5:$md5b64\n"; my $expect = "cA5YjDeU2fOJwwnVFPCuAw=="; print $md5b64 eq $expect ? "Matches!\n" : "Doesn't match!\n"; __END__ Generated String is: MD5:cA5YjDeU2fOJwwnVFPCuAw== Matches!