Hi haukex
I got your point. Actually I thought I was missing something in this compare function, while calculating md5 checksum. That is why I posted that function alone. Here is the full code.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5;
sub compare {
my $pre_version =shift;
my $new_version =shift;
print("previous version: $pre_version\n");
print("new version : $new_version\n");
my $pre = Digest::MD5->new;
open (PRE, "$pre_version");
$pre->addfile(*PRE);
close(PRE);
my $pre_digest = $pre->hexdigest;
#print "pre digest=$pre_digest\n";
my $new = Digest::MD5->new;
open (NEW, "$new_version");
$new->addfile(*NEW);
close(NEW);
my $new_digest = $new->hexdigest;
#print "new digest=$new_digest\n";
if ($pre_digest eq $new_digest) {
print("Equal\n");
return 0;
} else {
print("Not Equal\n");
return 1;
}
}
compare($oldfile_path, $newfile_path);
Update:variable name updated from $co to $new
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