create

Make a new time-based (version 1) UUID.

Also available as Data::UUID::create_b64, Data::UUID::create_bin, Data::UUID::create_hex, Data::UUID::create_str.

create and create_bin return the 16 binary bytes, create_str the 36-character string, create_hex 0x and 32 hex digits, create_b64 24 Base64 characters. Successive UUIDs of one generator compare in the order they were made.

Synopsis

my $id  = $ug->create_str;    # e.g. 4162F712-1DD2-11B2-B17E-C09EFE1DC403
my $bin = $ug->create;