How to check the validity of a GUID (or UUID) using NSRegularExpression or any other effective way in Objective-C

Question

The method should return TRUE if the NSString is something like @\"{A5B8A206-E14D-429B-BEB0-2DD0575F3BC0}\" and FALSE for a NSString like @\"bla bla bla\"

I am using

Answer 1

This function will do the job..

-(BOOL)isValidUUID : (NSString *)UUIDString
{
     return (bool)[[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:U‌​UIDString]; 
}

Thanks @Erzékiel