Hallo Steve, >> To use the functionality in scoop I inserted the line >> "use Digest::SHA1 qw(sha1 sha1_hex sha1_base64);" > Try this: > my $strhash = Digest::SHA1::sha1_hex($string); It works! Thank you very much. Henning -- Henning Schroeder, Dipl.-Psych. mailto:schroeder at psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de