Messages in this thread | | | From | Markus Elfring <> | Subject | Generating identifiers similar to UUIDs but without dashes | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:40:17 +0100 |
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Hello,
The file “/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid” provides a bit of useful data. The formal definition of the string representation for universally unique identifiers requires the use of four dashes for the concatenation of fields. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122#page-4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24481801/is-uuid-without-dashes-hyphens-valid#answer-24484051
Now I am looking again for possibilities to generate reasonably unique identifiers also without these dashes. Can any data processing benefit from the avoidance of such extra characters?
Regards, Markus
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