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MD5()

MD5 is an AMPscript function in the encryption & encoding category. Lowercase hex.

Syntax

MD5(str, [charset])

Example

%%=MD5("ampsend")=%%

084d39a675975302272f21834aa44c24

Output produced by AmpSend's AMPscript engine (validated against Salesforce's own test corpus) - not a hand-written result.

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Official Salesforce documentation

MD5 in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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