Re^2: Perl sha256 question

Thank you so much :)

On the same machine and Perl version, when I set the number to a variable, it works:

use Digest::SHA qw(sha256_hex);

my $num = 5472151337331275;
print sha256_hex($num);
# b5951ee4a7cbfdc9df6b1b74de2d1ba865de40796c756cebe88a806c5a7b9e60
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What difference does setting it to a variable make?

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Re^3: Perl sha256 question
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on May 24, 2016 at 02:48 UTC

It looks as though the assignment is performing a stringification. I haven’t been able to replicate this behaviour. What is your platform, and what is the output of perl -V?

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Re^4: Perl sha256 question

by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2016 at 03:13 UTC

Ah sorry my bad.

The sha256 output of 5489612208355686 when set to a variable is

"7b74ee85ff18d48641ab219377ad40f3331f242afd94ebb33ddd1e5d61d5b6de",

not

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