Re: MD5 Peculiarities

You are calculating the MD5 of a reference, not the data.

my $foo = $$data;
#         ^
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Therefore, if you run a simple script several times in a row, the result is likely to be the same. In a complicate one, the reference to that variable may more easily change. Thus, the varying results you get.

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Re: Re: MD5 Peculiarities by skazat (Chaplain) on Jun 22, 2003 at 08:03 UTC
I'm passing a reference to the method (although this isn't aparent), doublin' up the '$" dereferences the variable, no? Anyways, in the actual MD5 method call, I have "foobarbaz". Anyways again, I switch to the non OO way of doings things in Digest::MD5 and everything works out OK. File under, "Why did this stupid thing waste my saturday night?" -justin simoni !skazat!	[reply]