scott_flex wrote: > Is there no function or object to generate a GUID, a true globally > unique identifier?
Just write your own--it's dirt simple. FYI, GUIDs and UUIDs aren't actually guaranteed to be absolutely unique--however, given the number of random bits involved, a repeat is statistically highly unlikely to happen. They're essentially just concatenated random bits, although in some cases a few bits are derived from MAC addresses (per version 1 UUIDs, which you won't have to access to) or hashes of a URL (version 3 and 5 UUIDs). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_Unique_Identifier http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt If you need it to play with a server and you're worried about repeats enough to expend some developer cycles, a better use of your time is to hash the GUIDs that you're given on the server-side and do a quick search for a collision prior to creating a database entry. This tactic also gets you around the possibility of malicious folk passing in faked GUIDs that they know may result in a collision. Jim Cheng effectiveUI
