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An Excel file isn't a simple string of characters. If you save a file in XLSX format it's really compressed archive. If any one of the files within that archive has a different bit of data the files' hash will differ.
SHA 265 hashing two documents
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Nick Schiffers
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I have the following question. I want to compare two Excel document on their content. So I want to use the following code in PowerShell: Get-filehash -Algorithm SHA256 -Path......
When I create two different documents with the same content I get two different hash code. How is that possible? I always thought if the content is completely the same I need to get the same code.
Does anyone have an anwser who this is possible?
And does anyone have a solution how I can compare two Excel documents with hashing?
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