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A simple and readable way to generate valid v4 UUIDs in JavaScript. CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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function randomUUID() { | |
return randhex(8) + "-" + randhex(4) + "-4" + randhex(3) + "-" + choice(["8", "9", "a", "b"]) + randhex(3) + "-" + randhex(12); | |
} | |
let scratchTarr = new Uint32Array(1); | |
function choice(arr) { | |
crypto.getRandomValues(scratchTarr); | |
return arr[Math.floor(scratchTarr[0]%arr.length)] | |
} | |
function randhex(count) { | |
crypto.getRandomValues(scratchTarr); | |
return ("00000000"+scratchTarr[0].toString(16)).slice(-count); | |
} |
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