in reply to Re^2: How good is gzip data as digest?
in thread How good is gzip data as digest?

Except that perl doesn't mind null characters in strings. Don't confuse them with C strings. 
> perl -e '$str="bla\x00bla"; print length($str),$str,"\n";'
7blabla

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