in reply to Fore!
in thread Dotless IP address problem

Nice, but too many parens....
% perl -le 'print join".",unpack"C4",pack"N",pop' 3232235777 192.168.1.1 % perl -le 'print unpack"N",pack"C4",split/\./,pop' 192.168.1.1 + 3232235777
Update: 34 chars each... (though split\D seems to only work in 5.503 not 5.6.0)
% perl -le 'print unpack N,pack C4,split\D,pop' 192.168.1.1 + 3221225472 % perl -le 'print join".",unpack C4,pack N,pop' 3232235777 192.168.1.1

-Blake