Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?

2014-01-21 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hi, 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. NSUUID's -UUIDString documentation also suggests uppercase characters being used, but doesn't commit to

Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?

2014-01-21 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
According to the current CF sources, CFUUIDCreateString() returns an uppercase string. But if I really want to know what I get, I would rather use the libuuid functions provided by the system: uuid_unparse_lower() and uuid_unparse_upper(). See man uuid for details. Le 21 janv. 2014 à 11:21,

Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?

2014-01-21 Thread Markus Spoettl
Hi Jean-Daniel, On 1/21/14 11:36 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: According to the current CF sources, CFUUIDCreateString() returns an uppercase string. But if I really want to know what I get, I would rather use the libuuid functions provided by the system: uuid_unparse_lower() and

Re: Can CFUUIDCreateString() return lowercase characters?

2014-01-21 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Markus Spoettl ms_li...@shiftoption.com 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