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UUID_PARSE(3)         DragonFly Library Functions Manual         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 '\0').


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

       http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/>


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)

E2fsprogs version 1.42.13          May 2015                      UUID_PARSE(3)

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