Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?
Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?
- Subject: Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:11:44 -0800
On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Markus Spoettl <email@hidden> wrote:
> up until now I've been assuming that CFUUIDCreateString() returns strings using uppercase letters. There's lots of empirical evidence that it does do that, but nothing in writing.
That doesn't seem like a safe assumption to make. (CFUUID has changed format at least once in the past, IIRC.) If you're using a UUID in a context that can't handle lowercase, I would manually convert it to uppercase first, just to make sure.
—Jens
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