Creating a UUID from a string with no dashes

Question

How would I create a java.util.UUID from a string with no dashes?

\"5231b533ba17478798a3f2df37de2aD7\" => #uuid \"5231b533-ba17-4787-98a3-f2df37de2aD7\"
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Answer 1

Regexp solution is probably faster, but you can also look at that :)

String withoutDashes = "44e128a5-ac7a-4c9a-be4c-224b6bf81b20".replaceAll("-", "");      
BigInteger bi1 = new BigInteger(withoutDashes.substring(0, 16), 16);                
BigInteger bi2 = new BigInteger(withoutDashes.substring(16, 32), 16);
UUID uuid = new UUID(bi1.longValue(), bi2.longValue());
String withDashes = uuid.toString();

By the way, conversion from 16 binary bytes to uuid

  InputStream is = ..binarty input..;
  byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(is);
  ByteBuffer bb = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes);
  UUID uuidWithDashesObj = new UUID(bb.getLong(), bb.getLong());
  String uuidWithDashes = uuidWithDashesObj.toString();