UUIDGEN Function


Returns the short or binary form of a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)

Category: Special

Syntax

UUIDGEN (< max-warnings <, binary-result >>)

Arguments

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:

Details

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.

See Also

'Universal Unique Identifiers' in SAS Language Reference: Concepts




SAS 9.1 Language Reference Dictionary, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
SAS 9.1 Language Reference Dictionary, Volumes 1, 2 and 3
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 704

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