Как да съхранявате 128 бита UUID в 16 байта ASCII NSString

Използвайте тази категория в NSString с любезното съдействие:

   static unichar x (unsigned int); 

@implementation NSString (TWUUID) 

+ (NSString*) stringWithUniqueId 
{ 
    CFUUIDRef uuid = CFUUIDCreate(NULL); 
    CFUUIDBytes b = CFUUIDGetUUIDBytes(uuid); 
    unichar unichars[22]; 
    unichar* c = unichars; 
    *c++ = x(b.byte0 >> 2); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte0 & 3 << 4) + (b.byte1 >> 4)); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte1 & 15 << 2) + (b.byte2 >> 6)); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte2 & 63); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte3 >> 2); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte3 & 3 << 4) + (b.byte4 >> 4)); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte4 & 15 << 2) + (b.byte5 >> 6)); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte5 & 63); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte6 >> 2); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte6 & 3 << 4) + (b.byte7 >> 4)); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte7 & 15 << 2) + (b.byte8 >> 6)); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte8 & 63); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte9 >> 2); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte9 & 3 << 4) + (b.byte10 >> 4)); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte10 & 15 << 2) + (b.byte11 >> 6)); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte11 & 63); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte12 >> 2); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte12 & 3 << 4) + (b.byte13 >> 4)); 
    *c++ = x((b.byte13 & 15 << 2) + (b.byte14 >> 6)); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte14 & 63); 
    *c++ = x(b.byte15 >> 2); 
    *c = x(b.byte15 & 3); 
    CFRelease(uuid); 
    return [NSString stringWithCharacters: unichars length: 16];
} 
@end

unichar x (unsigned int c)
{
    if (c < 26) return 'a' + c;
    if (c < 52) return 'A' + c - 26;
    if (c < 62) return '0' + c - 52;
    if (c == 62) return '$';
    return '_';
}


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    NSLog(@"%u", [[NSString stringWithCString:[[NSString stringWithUniqueId] UTF8String] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] length]);