Great idea. Let's generalize to respect the length of each field and make the substitutions in the original text.
Not matching the original field lengths may actually be a feature here - you'd be providing extra information if you did, which may or may not be what you want.
In reply to Re^3: Filtering out IP addresses
by AppleFritter
in thread Filtering out IP addresses
by Anonymous Monk
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