suse man page for uuid_parse

Query: uuid_parse

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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-ng package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux- ng/.
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-ng May 2009 UUID_PARSE(3)
Related Man Pages
uuid_parse(3) - centos
uuid_parse(3) - mojave
uuid_parse(3) - redhat
uuid_unparse(3) - debian
uuid_parse(3) - minix
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