use strict; my @returnVal = gethostbyname "www.perlmonks.org"; my @packedIP = $returnVal[4]; my ($a, $b, $c, $d); my @a = ($a, $b, $c, $d) = unpack('C4', $packedIP[0]); my $ip = "$a.$b.$c.$d"; print $ip; exit(0);