topic MD5 algorithm in SAS Programming

MD5 algorithm

KBACHU — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:28:05 GMT

Hi All, I am trying to call md5 algorithm from my SAS program. Can anyone help on doing this? I currently dont have md5 installed on my system.

KachiM — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:34:55 GMT

Md5() is a SAS function and there is no need to install it.

Give a String with a length less than 256 bytes and get a 16-byte value. An example:

mymd5 = md5("This is a big string");

ballardw — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:35:24 GMT

Are you asking about the SAS function MD5? The function takes any string as the argument and returns a 128-bit hash value.

data junk;
   y = md5('abc');
   z = md5('access method');
   put y= / y = hex32.;
   put z= / z = hex32.;
run;