polka4ever
Technical User
Hello! I am new to Perl and have been using it intermittently in a QA role. Mainly for parsing & testing tab delimited files.
I am reading through the Learning Perl book & working through Chapter 5 right now which is a chapter on hashes.
I am not sure I'm understanding a Hash on the large scale. I understand everything that is presented in the book - but I often come across reference to an MD5 hash. Not having a full understanding of what an MD5 hash is ... I'm trying to discern if a Perl hash and an MD5 hash are essentially of the same ilk - or if these are very different concepts.
Could someone enlighten me?
Thank you!
I am reading through the Learning Perl book & working through Chapter 5 right now which is a chapter on hashes.
I am not sure I'm understanding a Hash on the large scale. I understand everything that is presented in the book - but I often come across reference to an MD5 hash. Not having a full understanding of what an MD5 hash is ... I'm trying to discern if a Perl hash and an MD5 hash are essentially of the same ilk - or if these are very different concepts.
Could someone enlighten me?
Thank you!