Re: How do you check the equivalency of references?
Re: How do you check the equivalency of references?
- Subject: Re: How do you check the equivalency of references?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:57:35 -0700
At 9:49 +0000 8/8/2001, Jason W. Bruce wrote:
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John W Baxter wrote:
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> If we have a handy MD5 scripting addition, it might be worth computing the
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> MD5 hashes of the two strings: if they differ you have your answer; if
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> they are the same you really should compare some other way, but for some
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> data you'd have saved a lot of time on average.
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What's an MD5 hash?
MD5 runs code which combines the characters in the text and produces a
value which will be the same if the text is the same. (It has a small
chance of being the same if the text is different, hence my hedge above.)
"Anthony Adachi" <email@hidden> wrote:
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By the way, what is the MD5 scripting addition?
I don't know whether we have one. I said "**IF** we have a handy MD5
scripting addition...". [emphasis added this time around]
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA