Returns the short or binary form of a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)
Category: Special
UUIDGEN (< max-warnings <, binary-result >>)
max-warnings
specifies an integer value that represents the maximum number of warnings that this function writes to the log.
Default: 1
binary-result
specifies an integer value that indicates whether this function should return a binary result. Nonzero indicates a binary result should be returned. Zero indicates that a character result should be returned.
Default:
The UUIDGEN function returns a UUID (a unique value) for each cell . The default result is 36 characters long and it looks like:
5ab6fa40--426b-4375--bb22--2d0291f43319
A binary result is 16 bytes long.
'Universal Unique Identifiers' in SAS Language Reference: Concepts