The MD5 function takes a String as input and returns the hash of the input as a Hex- or Base64-encoded string, arrived at via the MD5 hashing algorithm.
This function requires a single String as input. As an option, it also accepts another string that defines if Hex or Base64 encoding will to be used to calculate the output: a string that gives the hash of the base string, as calculated by the MD5 algorithm.
Declaration
MD5(string, encode) -> hash
Parameters
string (required, type:string)
Any string.
encode (optional, type:string, default: "Hex")
The string "Hex" or "Base64". This defines if the hash of string will be Hex- or Base64-encoded, respectively.
If no value is given for encode, MD5 will return the Hex-encoded hash. If a value other than "Hex" or "Base64" is given for encode, MD5 will throw an error.
Return Values
hash(type: string)
The hash of the input as calculated by the MD5 algorithm.
Examples
The following example returns the Hex-encoded hash of the string "This is a string." as calculated by the MD5 algorithm:
MD5("This is a string.") => "13562b471182311b6eea8d241103e8f0"
The following example also returns the Hex-encoded hash of the string "This is a string." as calculated by the MD5 hashing algorithm. Note that it returns the same output as the above example; there is no difference in output between explicitly defining "Hex" as the value for encode and not defining encode at all:
MD5("This is a string.", "Hex") => "13562b471182311b6eea8d241103e8f0"
The following example returns the Base64-encoded hash of the string "This is a string." as calculated by the MD5 hashing algorithm. Note how this differs from the above examples:
MD5("This is a string.", "Base64") => "E1YrRxGCMRtu6o0kEQPo8A=="
The following example returns the hash of the string "[email protected]" as calculated by the MD5 algorithm. Note that within Airscript, an email is a subcategory of string:
MD5("[email protected]") => "97e234a976961293268d21561040057b"