UUID_PARSE(3) Libuuid API 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);
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_gener-
ate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)
util-linux May 2009 UUID_PARSE(3)