MD5()

Converts a string to a 128-bit hexadecimal MD5 hash.

Availability

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MD5(stringToConvert, charSet)

The MD5() function has two parameters:

stringToConvert (string): Required. The string to encode.
charSet (string): The character set to use for encoding. Accepted values are UTF-8 and UTF-16. The default value is UTF-8.

To use this function, pass it a string.

%%=MD5("This is a string of text.")=%%

The function outputs an MD5 hash of the provided string: 7ccb47715d465a9e6a2b7d3c0441da80

You can also generate the hash using UTF-16 encoding, as in this example.

%%=MD5("This is a string of text.", "UTF-16")=%%

The function outputs an MD5 hash that uses UTF-16 encoding: 3251ab3b9d54f085f6b57aa3bc134c3c