Functions and CALL Routines

UUIDGEN Function

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

Category:

Special

Syntax
Arguments
Details
	Length of Returned Variable in a DATA Step
	The Basics
See Also

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:

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

Length of Returned Variable in a DATA Step

If the UUIDGEN function returns a value to a variable that has not previously been assigned a length, then that variable is given a length of 200 bytes.

The Basics

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.