e-CryptIt Engine REALbasic Plugin

Adler32 Method

To compute a checksum using the Adler32 algorithm.
Adler32 is much faster and almost as reliable as CRC32.

Adler32(
   bytes as String,
   adler as Integer) as Integer

Parameters

bytes
The bytes to calculate.
adler
The Adler value to calculate from.

Returns

Integer

Remarks

A good way to represent the checksum as an Hex string:

myString = Right("0000000"+HEX(myadler), 8)

Supported Platforms:

  • PPC - MacOS 9
  • Carbon - MacOS 9 and MacOS X (PEF)
  • MacOS X PPC - (Mach-O)
  • MacOS X Universal Binary (Mach-O)
  • Win32 - Windows
  • Linux x86

    See Also

    GlobalMethods Global