Re^2: MD 5 hash comparison/checker

Hi, yeah it's used to compare the hashes.

I tryed your code, but it wont let me specify which files I'd like compared.

Also, I've noticed when I run code in perl, at the end of the code it automatically shuts down so I can't read the results, how do I stop this?

It doesn't happen if I run from CMD, but if I just click the .pl file it shuts down at the end.

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Re^3: MD 5 hash comparison/checker by graff (Chancellor) on May 07, 2010 at 03:24 UTC
but if I just click the .pl file it shuts down at the end. Ah. That explains a great deal. If you really want/expect the script to work when it gets launched by clicking on the file's icon in a file browser, consider the following idiom: `#!/usr/bin/perl # (use a unix/linux style shebang line, # because someday you will want to use a unix/linux system) use strict; my $reqd_param_count = 2; # (e.g. two file names) if ( ! @ARGV ) { # prompt for interactive input of required parameter(s) ... } elsif ( @ARGV == $reqd_param_count ) { # invoked from an interactive shell: required params are in @ARGV ... } else { die "Usage: $0 arg1 ...\n"; }` [download] But seriously, there ought to be a sensible way to set things up so that a user can easily invoke a perl script with args (that will go into @ARGV). If not, just please switch to some sort of GUI approach (Tk, wx, etc), or else get cozy with using a CLI shell ("bash" is available for windows, and is the best, IMHO).	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: MD 5 hash comparison/checker by daggy (Novice) on May 07, 2010 at 04:12 UTC
How would I go about implementing that code?	[reply]
Re^3: MD 5 hash comparison/checker by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 07, 2010 at 04:00 UTC
Command line tools are more useful when they accept file names from the command line. `perl compare.pl file1 file2` [download] But if you prefer to prompt the user, feel free to adjust at will.	[reply] [d/l]