in reply to Re^2: Grave accent caveats
in thread Grave accent/Backtick/`` caveats

And Massa hit the nail on the head:

my $text= "-n deepak.gulati\n";
my $hash2 = Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex($text);
print "$hash2\n";

Output:
98bed27374f41bdef95f4dbc6cb3ff3728721837

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