How to test valid UUID/GUID?

javascript regex validation uuid guid
Marek Sebera picture Marek Sebera · Oct 26, 2011 · Viewed 176k times · Source

How to check if variable contains valid UUID/GUID identifier?

I'm currently interested only in validating types 1 and 4, but it should not be a limitation to your answers.

Answer

Gambol picture Gambol · Nov 30, 2012

Currently, UUID's are as specified in RFC4122. An often neglected edge case is the NIL UUID, noted here. The following regex takes this into account and will return a match for a NIL UUID. See below for a UUID which only accepts non-NIL UUIDs. Both of these solutions are for versions 1 to 5 (see the first character of the third block).

Therefore to validate a UUID...

/^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-5][0-9a-f]{3}-[089ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i

...ensures you have a canonically formatted UUID that is Version 1 through 5 and is the appropriate Variant as per RFC4122.

NOTE: Braces { and } are not canonical. They are an artifact of some systems and usages.

Easy to modify the above regex to meet the requirements of the original question.

HINT: regex group/captures

To avoid matching NIL UUID:

/^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[1-5][0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i

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