---
name: "Digest::Nilsimsa"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-digest-nilsimsa"
version: "0.06-27"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Digest::Nilsimsa"
---

# Digest::Nilsimsa(3pm)

Perl version of Nilsimsa code

## NAME

Digest::Nilsimsa - Perl version of Nilsimsa code

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

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.

## SEE ALSO

http://ixazon.dynip.com/~cmeclax/nilsimsa.html

## AUTHOR

Chad Norwood \<chad@455scott.com\>, cmeclax