[fpc-pascal] MD5 Hash of StringList

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 11:33:02 -0400, "James Richters"
<james at productionautomation.net> wrote:

>I'm trying to figure out how to make an MD5 Hash from an entire StringList.  
> I am referencing the documentation here:
>https://wiki.freepascal.org/hash
>
>and I see how to make an MD5 Hash from a File, or from a single string, but I do not see how to make an MD5 Hash from something like a String List.  It mentions: 'There are routines to calculate hashes from some buffer, or a hash from an entire file.'     So how does one make an MD5 Hash from 'some buffer' ? 
>
>Is there a simple way I can create an MD5 Hash from my entire stringlist, or do I have to add the strings into some sort of buffer myself and then get the hash from that?
>
>Any advice is greatly appreciated

Maybe:

 hash := Md5Hash(MyStringlist.Text);

I don't know the call to the MD5hash creator, but the content of the
stringlist is available as property Text...


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Bo Berglund
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