UUID_PARSE(3)                 Programmers 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/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/>.

util-linux 2.40                   2024-04-06                     UUID_PARSE(3)