GenerateGUID

Unsafe

For thread safety, this property is not safe to read in an unsynchronized thread.

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Description:

The GenerateGUID function randomly creates a universally unique identifier (UUID) string.

The sixteen octets of a UUID are represented as 32 hexadecimal (base 16) digits, displayed in 5 groups separated by hyphens in the form 8-4-4-4-12 for a total of 36 characters. For example: 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000.

The wrapInCurlyBraces argument determines whether the returned string is wrapped in curly braces {}. For instance:

true - {94b717b2-d54f-4340-a504-bd809ef5bf5c}
false - db454790-7563-44ed-ab4b-397ff5df737b

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
Name wrapInCurlyBraces	Type bool	Default true	Summary Whether the returned string should be wrapped in {curly braces}

Returns

Return Type	Summary
Return Type string	Summary The randomly generated UUID

Code Samples

HttpService GenerateGUID

This example uses HttpService’s GenerateGUI method to generate and print a universally unique identifier.

			
				HttpService GenerateGUID

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			local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local result = HttpService:GenerateGUID(true)
print(result) --> Example output: {04AEBFEA-87FC-480F-A98B-E5E221007A90}
		
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