Functions and CALL Routines |
Returns the short or binary form of a Universal Unique Identifier
(UUID).
UUIDGEN(<max-warnings<,binary-result>>)
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max-warnings
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specifies an integer value that represents
the maximum number of warnings that this function writes to the log.
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binary-result
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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.
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 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
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