Forum Post: RE: GUID or not?

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Michael Jacobs

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Base-64 encoding is case-sensitive and having two values that vary only by case is perfectly acceptable. So using caps() will induce collisions with other base-64 encoded UUID values and not allow you to recover the initial raw value. So this is not a valid workaround. for example: the value 2000 encodes to "MjAwMAo=" : if you uppercase and decode "MJAWMAO=" you get an invalid value ( 0?0 ).

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