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We’ve previously shown how to create an MD5 sum for a file. If you don’t have a file and instead just need an MD5 sum for a byte array then you can achieve it using the following code.

            // Data is the byte array we need an MD5 sum for

            byte[] data = getDataFromWhereever();

            // Get an MD5 implementation of MessageDigest

            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");

            // Convert the MD5 byte array to a hex string

            String md5 = new BigInteger(1, md.digest(data)).toString(16);

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The following code will split the string into chunks, each of length ‘nchars’ (except potentially the last chunk)

int len = string.length();
for (int i=0; i<len; i+=nchars)
{
    String part = string.substring(i, Math.min(len, i + nchars)));
}

Another more exotic option uses regular expression and the spit() method. The number of dots in the regexp controls the length of each part.

// Splits string into 3 character long pieces.
String[] parts = string.split("(?<=\\G...)");

See how to fill a string with a character for how to dynamically generate a regexp for any number of characters. Though I’d probably go with the first method.

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Java 1.5 added a replace() method that could be used to replace all occurrences of a string wiuth another string

s = s.replace(" ", "");

Prior to 1.5 you can use a regular expression with the replaceAll() method to achieve that.

s = s.replaceAll(" ", "");

// Or to replace all whitespace

s = s.replaceAll("\\s", "");

Let us know if you need a different solution.

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