版本4的uuid形式为xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx，其中x是任何十六进制数字，y是8,9,A或b中的一个，例如f47ac10b-58cc-4372-a567-0e02b2c3d479。

来源:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid定义

因此，从技术上讲，这是更正确的:

/[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-4[a-f0-9]{3}-[89aAbB][a-f0-9]{3}-[a-f0-9]{12}/

bash的:

grep -E "[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-4[a-f0-9]{3}-[89aAbB][a-f0-9]{3}-[a-f0-9]{12}"

例如:

$> echo "f2575e6a-9bce-49e7-ae7c-bff6b555bda4" | grep -E "[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-4[a-f0-9]{3}-[89aAbB][a-f0-9]{3}-[a-f0-9]{12}"
f2575e6a-9bce-49e7-ae7c-bff6b555bda4

对于在OS X上使用uuidgen生成的UUID，正则表达式模式为

[A-F0-9]{8}-[A-F0-9]{4}-4[A-F0-9]{3}-[89AB][A-F0-9]{3}-[A-F0-9]{12}

验证与

uuidgen | grep -E "[A-F0-9]{8}-[A-F0-9]{4}-4[A-F0-9]{3}-[89AB][A-F0-9]{3}-[A-F0-9]{12}"

uuid的正则表达式是:

[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}

如果你想强制整个字符串来匹配这个正则表达式，你有时(你的匹配器API可能有一个方法)需要用^…$，即

^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

c++的变体:

#include <regex>  // Required include

...

// Source string    
std::wstring srcStr = L"String with GIUD: {4d36e96e-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} any text";

// Regex and match
std::wsmatch match;
std::wregex rx(L"(\\{[A-F0-9]{8}-[A-F0-9]{4}-[A-F0-9]{4}-[A-F0-9]{4}-[A-F0-9]{12}\\})", std::regex_constants::icase);

// Search
std::regex_search(srcStr, match, rx);

// Result
std::wstring strGUID       = match[1];

下面是工作的REGEX: https://www.regextester.com/99148

const regex = [0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}