ESLWEB Function

Creates a Globally Unique Identifier.

 

Get_GUID()

Parameters

None.

Returns

An ESL string containing a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)

Description

This function creates a GUID, a formatted string representation of a globally unique 128-bit integer. Use the Get_GUID function when you need an absolutely unique number that you can use as an identifier in a distributed environment.To a very high degree of certainty, this function returns a unique value – no other invocation, on the same or any other system (networked or not), should return the same value.

If there is any error when attempting to create a GUID, a NULL string is returned and a message is recorded in the errorlog.