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/util-linux/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/>.