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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | CONFORMING TO | AUTHORS | SEE ALSO | REPORTING BUGS | AVAILABILITY 

UUID_PARSE(3)              Programmers Manual              UUID_PARSE(3)

NAME         top

       uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary
       representation

SYNOPSIS         top

       #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         top

       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         top

       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         top

       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         top

       Theodore Y. Ts’o

SEE ALSO         top

       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         top

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY         top

       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/>. This page
       is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
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Pages that refer to this page: 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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