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Old 07-02-2009
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Hi TeamUSA.

Look at cksum, or...

Perl has an excellent feature for this:

String::CRC::Cksum - Perl extension for calculating checksums in a manner compatible with the POSIX cksum program. - search.cpan.org

But I'm not quite sure why you want to "read each word and compile a checksum"