title: How to store UUID as int
body: <p>I m having some issues here.. I am using the following code to generate the uuid in mine application.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    - (NSString *)GetUUID
  {
      CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
      CFStringRef string = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, theUUID);
      CFRelease(theUUID);
      return [(NSString *)string autorelease];
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This code returns a <code>NSString</code> object back. Now I want to store the generated <code>UUID</code> as <code>unsigned int</code>. Any suggestions please how can i do it here. Thanks.</p>