UUID_PARSE
Section: Libuuid API (3)
Updated: May 2009
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NAME
uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation
SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid.h>
int uuid_parse( char *in, 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 '\0').
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 RFC-4122.
AUTHOR
Theodore Y. Ts'o
AVAILABILITY
libuuid
is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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)
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