This seems to do what you are asking:

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex);
use Math::BigInt;
my $foo = 'hello, world!';
my @v = unpack('q', md5($foo));
printf "%x %x\n", @v;
my $h = substr(md5_hex($foo),0,16); # get first 8 bytes (pairs of hex 
+digits)
my @w = reverse $h =~ /(..)/g;      # split out the bytes and reverse 
+the order
my $w = join('', @w);
my $q = Math::BigInt->from_hex($w);
print $q->as_hex();

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I was surprised that it was necessary to reverse the bytes to get the same result as unpack('q', md5($foo)) but that's what it took.

In reply to Re^9: Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl (a8) by RonW
in thread Equivalent of unpack 'q' with 32-bit Perl by Limbic~Region

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