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doc: set encoding to hex before piping hash
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I found out that piping a hash to the stdout output would print a
non-hex set of characters, however, the examples are intended to print
out a hex-encoded output so, my proposal here is simple, we set the
encoding to `hex` before piping the response of the hash algo by calling
`hash.setEncoding('hex');`. With this the example is fixed

PR-URL: #35338
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Daijiro Wachi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
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vbarzana authored and MylesBorins committed Sep 29, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ const fs = require('fs');
const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256');

const input = fs.createReadStream('test.js');
input.pipe(hash).pipe(process.stdout);
input.pipe(hash).setEncoding('hex').pipe(process.stdout);
```

Example: Using the [`hash.update()`][] and [`hash.digest()`][] methods:
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