Returns a random v4 UUID of the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx, where each x is replaced with a random hexadecimal digit from 0 to f, and y is replaced with a random hexadecimal digit from 8 to b.
There's also @LeverOne's approach using iteration, which is one byte shorter.
| function b( | |
| a // placeholder | |
| ){ | |
| return a // if the placeholder was passed, return | |
| ? ( // a random number from 0 to 15 | |
| a ^ // unless b is 8, | |
| Math.random() // in which case | |
| * 16 // a random number from | |
| >> a/4 // 8 to 11 | |
| ).toString(16) // in hexadecimal | |
| : ( // or otherwise a concatenated string: | |
| [1e7] + // 10000000 + | |
| -1e3 + // -1000 + | |
| -4e3 + // -4000 + | |
| -8e3 + // -80000000 + | |
| -1e11 // -100000000000, | |
| ).replace( // replacing | |
| /[018]/g, // zeroes, ones, and eights with | |
| b // random hex digits | |
| ) | |
| } |
| function b(a){return a?(a^Math.random()*16>>a/4).toString(16):([1e7]+-1e3+-4e3+-8e3+-1e11).replace(/[018]/g,b)} |
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| "name": "UUID", | |
| "description": "Generates random UUIDs", | |
| "keywords": [ | |
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| "ID", | |
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That's because it's not part of the spec, it's part of the genius of @subzey. Look at the string that's being replaced
0 and 1 (1 is used as the head of a segment to prevent truncation),8, which is special cased with the ^ operation to clamp it to the proper values, but not4, which cannot be replaced because it specifies the version in the spec.
right, you got it. the 1 could be any other digit, really, it's just a placeholder, but the 8 was selected for its bitwise operation properties.
(there's a walkthrough here, fwiw)
@jed thanks! :)
I was perusing the minified source of a website to see how they did something, came across this interesting way to create a GUID, and traced it back to here. I thought it was interestingly minified in the source I was looking at (with an insanely clever minifier!). Made me laugh when I saw that the original was golfed. 😆 A+ on the golfing, BTW! Clever minifier indeed--a clever human minifier. This was really fun to mentally chew on.
For funsies, here's a rough draft on a UUIDv7 generator:
[...Date.now().toString(16).padStart(12,0)].toSpliced(8,0,'-').join``+([-7e3]+-8e3+-1e11).replace(/[018]/g,b=>(b^crypto.rng(1)[0]%16>>b/4).toString(16))
Oh, wait... I think I maybe get more of it now... the code has stuff like
1e3and8e3, which are like1000and8000... but it also has4e3... so basically it's targeting all the 1s, 0s, and 8s for replacement, but leaving the4in the middle alone.