Am Donnerstag, den 17.11.2016, 10:49 +1030 schrieb adamn...@gmail.com: > Every now and then I come across a need for a (locally) unique ID. Shelling > the ubiquitous gnu "uuidgen (-t/-r)" utility usually handles this effectively > enough. However, I am thinking that maybe this is a possible candidate for > the gb.util component. > In particular, most often times I am looking for the string representation of > the UID. In which case "SHELL uuidgen TO $somevar" is all that is required. > On the other hand, and on somewhat rarer occasions, I need the binary rep of > the generated UID. Now "uuid_parse" can handle that ... and some years ago > (gb2) I had a bit of code that could call that routine, sadly now long lost. > > Anyway, if there is any interest in this, as an enhancement to gb.util I'll > spend some effort trying to find that old code and adding it to the gb.util > component. I'm thinking about two new functions here > a) "GenUUID" with optional params to force the -t/-r options which would just > shell the uuidgen utility and return the string representation and > b) "GenUUIDBinary" that would return the binary version. > > Any thoughts? > B > >
Salut B, I use the attached (now on gambas3 as library) uuidgen since 12 year now, works pretty simple and never failed since. I use it in a CRM DB as PK in every table. -- Amicalement Charlie
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