Question

On my Linux platform with 64bits recompiled perl and SSHing Mac terminal (I guess UTF-8). I am giving all this information just in case it might be relevant.

# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@vi\n") ."\n");'
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# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@visi\n") ."\n");'
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# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@vision\n") ."\n");'
756e98065cb8cbf603a3dbef2afe9261

# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@visionten\n") ."\n");'
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# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@visionten.\n") ."\n");'
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# perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw/md5_hex/; print(md5_hex("alex@\n") ."\n");'
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Answer 1

You are using @ inside a double-quoted string. All of the @vision and @visionten things are evaluating to the same thing.