redhat man page for uuid_parse

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)