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- package UUID;
-
- require 5.005;
- use strict;
- #use warnings;
-
- require Exporter;
- require DynaLoader;
-
- use vars qw(@ISA %EXPORT_TAGS @EXPORT_OK $VERSION);
- @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
-
- # This allows declaration use UUID ':all';
- # If you do not need this, moving things directly into @EXPORT or @EXPORT_OK
- # will save memory.
-
- %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [qw(&generate &parse &unparse)] );
-
- @EXPORT_OK = ( @{$EXPORT_TAGS{'all'}} );
-
- $VERSION = '0.02';
-
- bootstrap UUID $VERSION;
-
- # Preloaded methods go here.
-
- 1;
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- UUID - Perl extension for using UUID interfaces as defined in e2fsprogs.
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use UUID;
- UUID::generate($uuid); # generates a 128 bit uuid
- UUID::unparse($uuid, $string); # change $uuid to 36 byte string
- $rc = UUID::parse($string, $uuid); # map string to UUID, return -1 on error
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- With these 3 routines UUID''s can easily be generated and parsed/un-parsed.
-
- =head2 EXPORT
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- UUID::{generate, parse, unparse}
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Peter J. Braam <braam@mountainviewdata.com>
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- perl(1).
-
- =cut
-