I have the following piece of code:
func GetUUIDValidator(text string) bool {
r, _ := regexp.Compile("/[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-4[a-f0-9]{3}-[89aAbB][a-f0-9]{3}-[a-f0-9]{12}/")
return r.Match([]byte(text))
}
But when I pass fbd3036f-0f1c-4e98-b71c-d4cd61213f90
as a value, I got false
, while indeed it is an UUID v4.
What am I doing wrong?
Try with...
func IsValidUUID(uuid string) bool {
r := regexp.MustCompile("^[a-fA-F0-9]{8}-[a-fA-F0-9]{4}-4[a-fA-F0-9]{3}-[8|9|aA|bB][a-fA-F0-9]{3}-[a-fA-F0-9]{12}$")
return r.MatchString(uuid)
}
Live example: https://play.golang.org/p/a4Z-Jn4EvG
Note: as others have said, validating UUIDs with regular expressions can be slow. Consider other options too if you need better performance.
Regex is expensive. The following approach is ~18x times faster than the regex version.
Use something like https://godoc.org/github.com/google/uuid#Parse instead.
import "github.com/google/uuid"
func IsValidUUID(u string) bool {
_, err := uuid.Parse(u)
return err == nil
}
You can utilize satori/go.uuid package to accomplish this:
import "github.com/satori/go.uuid"
func IsValidUUID(u string) bool {
_, err := uuid.FromString(u)
return err == nil
}
This package is widely used for UUID operations: https://github.com/satori/go.uuid