Hi All, I'm new to perl and I'd like to provide an auth mechanism in perl... any way I can't understand why I have two different digest if I use *STDIN or a String. This is my test code: 
#!/user/bin/perl
use Digest::MD5 ;
my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
$md5->reset;
$md5->addfile(\*STDIN);
print $md5->hexdigest , "\n" ;
$md5->reset;
$md5->add("jhondoe:one_real:jh@ondoe");
print $md5->hexdigest , "\n" ;

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and for trying I do: 
echo -n "jhondoe:one_real:jh@ondoe" | perl computedigest.pl
10933255f493361481c580259b2a1ab5
f483e2cea20ce9d5891abd77c66a01a6

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For me it is impossible to understand. Can someone can explain to me, I use perl 5.8.6 on a i686 linux with Digest 2.36 Thank you. Eltorio

In reply to Newbie doesn't understand Digest::MD5 by eltorio

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