sha1digest()

[genie]

I cannot seem to understand LiveCode's sha1 function...

sha1 of "234LK435J6345234LKJ234LKJ23403/24/2012 12:41Str8Arr0w%" is "fb221be295b72edfaa98b4b43c329df448df68d5"

but when I get sha1Digest(someData)

^this would return something like this...
˚"‚ï∑.fl™ò¥¥<2ùÙHflh’

Why is the function returning some weird characters instead of alphanumeric? Can somebody please help me? I'm trying to use the sha1 of some string and use it as a parameter in the URL, but the weird characters won't do.


Thank you so much!

[shaosean]

This function returns the sha-1 digest in the form of 20 (binary) bytes.

I do not use LiveCode, but this was some earlier code to convert the md5digest into a hex string, so see if will work for your sha1digest

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function hexDigest pvalue
  local tRes, tSHA1
  put sha1digest(pValue) into tSHA1
  get binaryDecode("H*",tSHA1,tRes)
  return tRes
end hexDigest

Rev really needs to update the online documentation as sha1digest is not listed..

[genie]

ohhhh! works great. Thanks much shaosean!