UUID_PARSE

Section: Programmer*(Aqs Manual (3)
Updated: 202-1-15
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NAME

uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation  

SYNOPSIS

#include <uuid.h>

int uuid_parse(const char *in, uuid_t uu);
int uuid_parse_range(const char *in_start, const char *in_end, uuid_t uu);  

DESCRIPTION

The uuid_parse() function converts the UUID string given by in into the binary representation. The input UUID is a string of the form 1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb (in printf(3) format "%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x", 36 bytes plus the trailing 'rs0').

The uuid_parse_range() function works like uuid_parse() but parses only range in string specified by in_start and in_end pointers.  

RETURN VALUE

Upon successfully parsing the input string, 0 is returned, and the UUID is stored in the location pointed to by uu, otherwise -1 is returned.  

CONFORMING TO

This library parses UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and V5 compatible with https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122 <L>RF-4122  

AUTHORS

Theodore Y. Tscqo  

SEE ALSO

uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)  

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the https://github.com/uti-linux/uti-linux/issues <L>issue tracker  

AVAILABILITY

The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1. It can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/uti-linux/ <L>Linux Kernel Archive

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

RETURN VALUE

CONFORMING TO

AUTHORS

SEE ALSO

REPORTING BUGS

AVAILABILITY