Sample usage: use Net::CIDR::Lite; my $cidr = Net::CIDR::Lite->new; $cidr->add("209.152.214.112/30"); $cidr->add("209.152.214.116/31"); $cidr->add("209.152.214.118/31"); print "$_\n" for $cidr->list; And the module: ################################## package Net::CIDR::Lite; use strict; use Socket qw(inet_aton inet_ntoa); use vars qw($VERSION); $VERSION = '0.01'; my @masks = (0,0,map { pack("B*", substr("1" x $_ . "0" x 32, 0, 32)) } 2..32); my @bits2rng = (0,0,map { 2**(32 - $_) } 2..32); my %rng2bits = map { $bits2rng[$_] => $_ } 0..32; sub new { my $proto = shift; my $class = ref($proto) || $proto; bless {}, $class; } sub add { my $self = shift; local $_ = shift; my ($ip, $mask) = split "/"; my $start = inet_aton($ip) & $masks[$mask]; my $end = pack("N", unpack("N", $start) + $bits2rng[$mask]); $$self{$start}++; $$self{$end}--; } sub clean { my $self = shift; %$self = map { $$self{$_} ? ($_ => $$self{$_}) : () } keys %$self; } sub list { my $self = shift; my ($start, $total); my @results; for my $ip (sort keys %$self) { $start = $ip unless $total; $total += $$self{$ip}; unless ($total) { my $diff = unpack("N", $ip) - unpack("N", $start); while ($diff) { (my $zeros = unpack("B*", $start)) =~ s/^.*1//; my $range; for my $i (32-length($zeros)..32) { $range = $bits2rng[$i], last if $bits2rng[$i] <= $diff; } push @results, inet_ntoa($start)."/".$rng2bits{$range}; $diff -= $range; $start = pack("N", unpack("N", $start)+$range); } } } wantarray ? @results : \@results; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Net::CIDR::Lite - Perl extension for merging CIDR addresses =head1 SYNOPSIS use Net::CIDR::Lite; my $cidr = Net::CIDR::Lite->new; $cidr->add($cidr_address); @cidr_list = $cidr->list; =head1 DESCRIPTION Faster alternative to Net::CIDR::cidradd. Limited for the time being to IPv4 addresses. =head1 METHODS =item new() $cidr = Net::CIDR::Lite->new Creates an object to represent a list of CIDR address ranges. =item add() $cidr->add($cidr_address) Adds a CIDR address range to the list. =item $cidr->clean() $cidr->clean; If you are going to call the list method more than once on the same data, then for optimal performance, you can call this to purge null nodes from the list. =item $cidr->list() @cidr_list = $cidr->list; Returns a list of the merged CIDR addresses. =head1 CAVEATS Garbage in/garbage out. This module makes no attempt to validate the format of your data. =head1 AUTHOR #### =head1 COPYRIGHT This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L. =cut