uuid_parse(3) [linux man page]

UUID_PARSE(3)							    Libuuid API 						     UUID_PARSE(3)

NAME

       uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into binary representation

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/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 '').

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

       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR

       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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)

util-linux							     May 2009							     UUID_PARSE(3)

UUID_PARSE(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     UUID_PARSE(3)

NAME

       uuid_parse - convert an input UUID string into the libuuid internal format

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       int uuid_parse( char *in, uuid_t uu);

DESCRIPTION

       The  uuid_parse	function  converts  the  UUID  string given by in into the internal uuid_t format.  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 '').

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

       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR

       uuid_parse was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.

AVAILABILITY

       uuid_parse is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

       libuuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)

E2fsprogs version 1.32						   November 2002						     UUID_PARSE(3)