UUID Generation

For generating UUID in MATLAB

Description

This is a simple tool for generating universal unique identifiers (UUID) in MATLAB programs.

Many applications require UUID to identify things uniquely. However, MATLAB has not offered such function. I recognized this need when I was developing a matlab-based system, and thus developed this tool.

The tool supports both windows and Linux.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)

[A W]

For those who run newer versions of MATLAB with the JVM installed, there is a simple one-liner:

UUID = java.util.UUID.randomUUID

[Brian Emery]

another option (for mac users at least):
[s,UUID] = system('uuidgen');