java.util.UUID.version() Method

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Description

The version() method is used to return the version number associated with this UUID. The version number describes how this UUID was generated.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.UUID.version() method.

public int version()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

The method call returns the version number of this UUID.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.UUID.version()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class UUIDDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // creating UUID      
      UUID uid = UUID.fromString("38400000-8cf0-11bd-b23e-10b96e4ef00d");     

      // checking version value
      System.out.println("Version value: "+uid.version());    
   }    
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

Version value: 1