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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

       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)