uuid - UUID generation and comparison
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Category
Hashes, checksums, and encryption
Commands
::uuid::uuidgenerate
Creates a type 4 uuid by MD5 hashing a number of bits of variant data including the time and
hostname. Returns the string representation of the new uuid.
::uuid::uuidequalid1id2
Compares two uuids and returns true if both arguments are the same uuid.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004, Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
tcllib 1.0.9 uuid(3tcl)
Description
This package provides a generator of universally unique identifiers (UUID) also known as globally unique
identifiers (GUID). This implementation follows the draft specification from (1) although this is
actually an expired draft document.
Examples
% uuid::uuid generate
b12dc22c-5c36-41d2-57da-e29d0ef5839c
Keywords
GUID, UUID
Name
uuid - UUID generation and comparison
References
[1] Paul J. Leach, "UUIDs and GUIDs", February 1998. (http://www.opengroup.org/dce/info/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt)
Synopsis
package require Tcl8.59
package require uuid?1.0.9?::uuid::uuidgenerate::uuid::uuidequalid1id2
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