From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T18:45:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20358] Re: Digest::MD5 usage...

Sean Chittenden wrote:
> 	Howdy.  The following script works:
> 
> require 'digest/md5'
> md5digest = Digest::MD5.new
> md5digest.update('foo')
> puts md5digest.hexdigest

Digest is new in Ruby 1.7.

> 
> 	However, the following does something interesting:
> 
> require 'digest/md5'
> md5digest = Digest::MD5.hexdigest('foo')
> 
> 	Why does the class method of Digest::MD5 print the digest to
> STDOUT?  Maybe it's me, but that strikes me as an odd behavior.  Is this
> the intended behavior?  Is there any module documentation sitting around
> someplace?  -sc

Because file ext/digest/digest.c, method rb_digest_base_s_hexdigest has a line
"puts(hexdigest)".

Perhaps this should be removed?

Regards,

  Michael


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