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UUIDMBS class
| Type | Topic | Plugin | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | iOS | Targets |
| class | Encryption and Hash | MBS Util Plugin | 6.3 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | All |
This class creates a 128 bit UUID (or UID or GUID) which is random.
On Mac OS X: Uses CoreFoundation system functions from Mac OS X 10.3.
On Linux: Uses unix system functions (libuuid).
On Windows: Uses UUID functions from RPC functions (Rpcrt4.dll).
If you need to validate a GUID or UUID, please check the Validate function.
- 2 properties
- 4 methods
- method ValueFormattedString(WithBrackets as Boolean = true) as String
- method ValueHexString as String
- method ValueMemory as Memoryblock
- method ValueString as String
- 3 shared methods
- shared method randomUUID as UUIDMBS
- shared method UUID as UUIDMBS
- shared method Validate(UUID as string, mode as Integer = 0, requiredVersion as Integer = 0) as string
This class has no sub classes.
Some examples using this class:
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Release notes
- Version 23.5
- Improved UUIDMBS.randomUUID to be a bit more random.
- Version 22.1
- Added WithBrackets parameter for ValueFormattedString method in UUIDMBS class.
- Version 20.0
- Fixed bug with random number generator on Windows not always working very randomly on threads. Affected UUIDMBS.randomUUID function used in threads.
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