UUID_PARSE(3) Programmer's Manual UUID_PARSE(3)
NAME
uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation
SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid.h>
int uuid_parse(char *in, uuid_t uu);
int uuid_parse_range(char *in_start, 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 '\0').
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 RFC-4122
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122>.
AUTHORS
Theodore Y. Ts’o
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 issue tracker at
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.
AVAILABILITY
The libuuid library is part of the util-linux package since version
2.15.1. It can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
util-linux 2.37.2 2021-06-02 UUID_PARSE(3)
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