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uuid-lib

OSF DCE 1.1 UUID

Documentation

Wrapper for uuid/uuid.h procedures on MacOS X, and Linux.

When an argument is not of the expected type the routines will silently fail by returning #f, no matter what the declared return type.

Predicates

uuid?

[procedure] (uuid? UUID) => boolean

Is UUID a uuid?

uuid-null?

[procedure] (uuid-null? UUID) => boolean

Is UUID the null-uuid?

uuid-compare

[procedure] (uuid-compare UUID1 UUID2) => integer

Returns -1, 0. or 1 for the comaprison of UUID1 and UUID2.

uuid=?

[procedure] (uuid=? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Are UUID1 and UUID2 equal?

uuid<>?

[procedure] (uuid<>? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Are UUID1 and UUID2 not equal?

uuid<?

[procedure] (uuid<? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Does UUID1 order below UUID2?

uuid>?

[procedure] (uuid>? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Does UUID1 order above UUID2?

uuid<=?

[procedure] (uuid<=? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Does UUID1 order below or the same as UUID2?

uuid>=?

[procedure] (uuid>=? UUID1 UUID2) => boolean

Does UUID1 order above or the same as UUID2?

Operations

uuid-clear!

[procedure] (uuid-clear! UUID) => uuid

Returns the UUID set to the null-uuid.

uuid-copy

[procedure] (uuid-copy UUID) => uuid

Returns a copy of the UUID.

uuid-generate

[procedure] (uuid-generate [#:method METHOD]) => uuid

Returns a new uuid.

METHOD is #f, 'random, or 'time. Default is #f.

An invalid METHOD is an error condtion.

uuid-parse

[procedure] (uuid-parse UUID-TEXT) => uuid

Returns a new uuid from the external string representation UUID-TEXT.

uuid-unparse

[procedure] (uuid-unparse UUID [#:case CASE]) => string

Returns the external string representation of UUID.

CASE is #f, 'upper, or 'lower. Default is #f.

An invalid CASE is an error condtion.

Usage

(require-extension uuid-lib)

Author

Kon Lovett

Version history

1.3.0

Exposed uuid-compare.

1.2

Hello.

License

Copyright (C) 2010 Kon Lovett. All rights reserved.

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