$cname = $name = $_ ;   # copies $_ into $name and $cname
$name =~ s/\s//g;       # removes the spaces from $name
$name = $pwd = $_ ;     # copies $_ into $name and $pwd
$pwd =~ tr ....         # transliterates $pwd

##</code><code>##

$name = $pwd = $_;      # copy line into $name and $pwd
$pwd =~ s/\s//g;        # remove spaces from $pwd
$pwd =~ tr ....         # transliterate $pwd

##</code><code>##

use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5);

my $name = "Fred Flintstone";
my $key = substr unpack("I", md5 $name), -6;

print "Name: $name\n";
print "Key:  $key\n";