Can anyone tell me if there's a simple way using perl to generate an md5 hash of a string that will be equal to that generated by the md5() function in PHP? I'm working on some multi-script, cross-language user authentication and this is the one missing link in the plan.

Many thanks for any advice.

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use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/;
my $md5_hash = md5_hex("some string");

or if you are using our libs:

use GT::MD5 qw/md5_hex/;
my $md5_hash = md5_hex("some string");

which will work even if you don't have Digest::MD5 installed.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Perfect - thanks!

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