Digest::base(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Digest::base(3)NAMEDigest::base - Digest base class
SYNOPSIS
package Digest::Foo;
use base 'Digest::base';
DESCRIPTION
The "Digest::base" class provide implementations of the methods
"addfile" and "add_bits" in terms of "add", and of the methods "hexdi-
gest" and "b64digest" in terms of "digest".
Digest implementations might want to inherit from this class to get
this implementations of the alternative add and digest methods. A min-
imal subclass needs to implement the following methods by itself:
new
clone
add
digest
The arguments and expected behaviour of these methods are described in
Digest.
SEE ALSO
Digest
perl v5.8.8 2006-06-14 Digest::base(3)