when i run the code above on the string "7512" i get: cA5YjDeU2fOJwwnVFPCuAw==

Apparently, UnicodeEncoding encodes to UTF-16LE - at least that's what your sample seems to show. So in Perl, you'll have to use the Encode module for that, and then either use md5_base64 from Digest::MD5, which removes the padding at the end of the string (==), or, if you want the padding, you'll have to use MIME::Base64 separately:

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!

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In reply to Re^3: convert c# to perl code by haukex
in thread convert c# to perl code by ori smaug

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