From: Doug Jolley Date: 2010-06-24T04:14:15+09:00 Subject: Re: MD5 Checksum of a String > You will find that the third result is the MD5 for "My dog has fleas.\n" Oops. My bad. I should have used 'echo -n'. So, it really was one of the issues that had been discussed in the archive. I truly appologize. Thanks for the input. ... doug -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.