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Generate UUID

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Demonstrates how to generate a random UUID string (also known as GUID) having the standard UUID format such as "de305d54-75b4-431b-adb2-eb6b9e546014".

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Lua 
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local crypt = chilkat.Crypt2.new()

local uuid = crypt:generate_uuid()

print(uuid)