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GUID validation

Former Member — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:59:13 GMT

Hi,

is it somehow possible to validate GUID if it is correct?

thanks

Juraj

Re: GUID validation

brad_bohn — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:31:17 GMT

Your question doesn't make sense - please elaborate. What do you want to validate? That it does or doesn't exist in your system for a particular application?

Re: GUID validation

Former Member — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:40:14 GMT

Hi,

I get GUID from external app (it's scanned and then recognized via sw), so I need to validate, if the string got from recognition is really GUID

thanks

Juraj

Re: GUID validation

former_member776318 — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:55:53 GMT

Hello,

I do not have a clue about how & from which system you are receiving the GUID.

Looks like you are dealing with persistence services. If so, you may be able to get the GUID from ABAP dictionary table BCST_CAM.

Let me know if it was useful to you.

Regards,

Saurabh

Re: GUID validation

brad_bohn — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:35:10 GMT

No, you can't. How does that have any relevance to a GUID generated by an external system?

To the poster, you can't really 'validate' a GUID. It's a randomly generated character sequence and 99.9999% guaranteed to be unique. You could check if you've received the same value before or check the length, but it would probably be a waste of code...