Digest::Nilsimsa(3pm)

Digest::Nilsimsa3pm

Perl version of nilsimsa code

Usage

 use Digest::Nilsimsa;
 my $nilsimsa = Digest::Nilsimsa;
 my $digest = $nilsimsa->text2digest($text);

Overview

A nilsimsa signature is a statistic of n-gram occurance in a piece of text. It is a 256 bit value usually represented in hex. This module is a wrapper around nilsimsa implementation in C by cmeclax.

Methods

$nilsimsa->text2digest($text);

Pass in any text, any size, and get back a digest string composed 64 hex chars.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1
  2. Arch

Author

Chad Norwood <[email protected]>, cmeclax

From perl-digest-nilsimsa 0.06-27 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.