UUID Lua In this post, we will write a UUID generator in lua programming language. local function getUUID() local template ='xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' return string.gsub(template, '[xy]', function (c) local v = (c == 'x') and random(0, 0xf) or random(8, 0xb) return string.format('%x', v) end) end Please write comments if you find anything incorrect, or you want to share more information about the topic discussed above.