NAME

Boost::UUID - perl interface for boost::uuid

SYNOPSYS

### SHA-1 format ( example 25f9de77-a9a6-5816-b7cb-bafc0a203417 )
use Boost::UUID;
my $uuid = Boost::UUID->random_uuid();

### Generate nil uuid
my $nil_uuid = Boost::UUID::nil_uuid(); ### 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

### convert string to uuid
Boost::UUID::string_uuid("wrong_uuid_string"); ### 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 - nil uuid
Boost::UUID::string_uuid("0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"); ### 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef

### Generate UUID by name ( useful for DNS names )
is Boost::UUID::name_uuid(""), 'e129f27c-5103-5c5c-844b-cdf0a15e160d';
is Boost::UUID::name_uuid("crazypanda.ru"), '25f9de77-a9a6-5816-b7cb-bafc0a203417';