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Will an MD5 encoded string ever have spaces in it?
What form does an MD5 string take?

Jun 28th, 1999 03:11
Nathan Wallace, Sascha Schumann


An MD5 string will always match:

^[a-zA-Z0-9]{32}$

That is, 32 characters long with each character being a single digit or
a letter.