How to determine if a string is a valid v4 UUID? [duplicate]

Question

I'm making a validator based on UUID generated by client browser, I use this to identify a certain type data that the user sends; and would like to validate that the UUID that client sends it is in fact a valid Version 4 UUID.

I found this PHP preg_match UUID v4, it's close but not exactly what I'm looking for. I wish to know if exists something similar to is_empty() or strtodate() Where if string is not valid Sends FALSE.

I could do based on the regular expression but I would like something more native to test it.

Any ideas?

11/23/2019 EDIT: About the duplicate tag, while the moderator is technicallly correct, this question was formulated with the goal of fibd something else to regex if existed, and in second place this question has become a reference to Pythoners and PHPers and has a different answers/approach to solve the problem and their answers are better explained in general. This is why I consider this question should be perserved

Answer 1

Version 4 UUIDs have the form xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx where x is any hexadecimal digit and y is one of 8, 9, A, or B.

^[0-9A-F]{8}-[0-9A-F]{4}-4[0-9A-F]{3}-[89AB][0-9A-F]{3}-[0-9A-F]{12}$ 

To allow lowercase letters, use i modifier →

$UUIDv4 = '/^[0-9A-F]{8}-[0-9A-F]{4}-4[0-9A-F]{3}-[89AB][0-9A-F]{3}-[0-9A-F]{12}$/i'; preg_match($UUIDv4, $value) or die('Not valid UUID');