[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53829] small error found in deprecated md5sum.m docstring in stable branch

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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53829>

                 Summary: small error found in deprecated md5sum.m docstring
in stable branch
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 04 May 2018 02:45:22 AM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.2
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

For string input parameter STR, fileread() should not be used.

Patch:

--- a/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m       2018-05-04 10:25:37.141415658 +0800
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m       2018-05-04 10:30:01.944756620 +0800
@@ -24,21 +24,21 @@
 ## For equivalent functionality replace calls like @code{md5sum
(@var{file})}
 ## with:
 ##
 ## @example
 ## hash ("md5", fileread (@var{file}))
 ## @end example
 ##
 ## And calls like @code{md5sum (@var{str}, true)} with:
 ##
 ## @example
-## hash ("md5", fileread (@var{str}))
+## hash ("md5", @var{str})
 ## @end example
 ##
 ## Calculate the MD5 sum of the file @var{file}.
 ##
 ## If the second parameter @var{opt} exists and is true, then calculate the
MD5
 ## sum of the string @var{str}.
 ##
 ## @seealso{hash, fileread}
 ## @end deftypefn





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