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SHA256()

SHA256 is an AMPscript function in the encryption & encoding category.

Syntax

SHA256(str, [charset])

Example

%%=SHA256("ampsend")=%%

79335fa2590bb8c92d5d40973b27dbbc8c958a7eeb5d8cf36e1eef40751afa41

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

SHA256 in the official AMPscript reference - or browse the official index of AMPscript functions for platform behavior and edge cases.

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