On Jan 4, Kipp, James said:
>buy not exactly sure how this is working. tried looking at perldoc pack
>but no luck. explanation is appreciated.
>
>$sum = unpack("%32C*", $string);
That is a 32-bit checksum (which means the sum is taken mod 2**32). It
does what your loop did (summing the ASCII values of each character) but
it does it internally (in the C code of Perl, rather than in your Perl
code).
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