Re: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string

Take a look at Regular expression anchors. In particular \b.

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Re^2: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string by adamZ88 (Beadle) on Apr 19, 2016 at 22:13 UTC
Thank you for your prompt response. The colon and other hex characters will always follow the last octet. I Tried your suggestion, and it still matches other ips that begin the same way on the fourth octet. Here is how I modified my code `if ($linebuf =~ /\d+\.$oc1\.$oc2\.$oc3\.$oc4:*/`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string by stevieb (Canon) on Apr 19, 2016 at 22:30 UTC
As I stated in my above post, you need to get rid of the `*`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string by adamZ88 (Beadle) on Apr 20, 2016 at 13:17 UTC
Thank you, that did it. I also had to add "^" at the beginning of my RegEx<\p>	[reply]
Re^2: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string by adamZ88 (Beadle) on Apr 19, 2016 at 22:26 UTC
Will do, Thank you.	[reply]