uuid_parse

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UUID_PARSE(3)							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 ’\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
       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 avail-
       able from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO
       libuuid(3),  uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_gener-
       ate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)



E2fsprogs version 1.35		February 2004			UUID_PARSE(3)