From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T06:59:32+09:00
Subject: Re: md5 function in Ruby

On 12/5/06, Denys Yakhnenko <dyakhnenko@linkp.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I've been having trouble with Ruby's md5 function... The following code
> snippet (file attached):
>
> ***begin code***
> require 'digest/md5'
>
> md5=Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read("C:\\dc.log"))
> puts md5
> ***end code***

File.read is a bad choice on Windows. It should be avoided if at all
possible. Do this instead:

  puts Digets::MD5.hexdigest(File.open("C:\\dc.log", "rb") { |f| f.read })

-austin
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