Monks,

I am having trouble determing what this regular expression does: 
[ split /\s+/ ] if /^(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3+})/;
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This was posted by ar0n in my node Automating Firewall Log Reporting. I "msg" ar0n for clarification, but he either didn't get it or was too busy to respond. Instead of feeling like a nuisance to him, I figure another monk would be able to help me.

This matches correctly, but I can't figure out what it is doing. The way I understand it, it is splitting on one or more whitespaces and matching anything that is NOT a digit between one to three characters long? This is where I am confused because the ip addresses range from 1-255 and I would think this does fall into the spectrum.

TIA

Dru

In reply to Clarify this Regular Expression by dru145

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