I am under a situation where i am trying to get the current IP address with time. The code below works fine when there is connection of internet and it return the IP as desired. 

 
my $address = 'Net::Address::IP::Local'->public ;

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The problem is my code also has to run if there is No internet connection, so the problem occurs when i am disconnected and still run the same code it breaks my all code because there is no IP written by it as we are disconnected from internet

Now i have though some solution of it but out of luck!!!! The solution is wheni receive no IP address then i should assign a static IP address like this ($address='192.80.160.16';) But it do not work. My try to do it is below : 

sub ReturnIpAddress 
{
 select STDOUT;
  my $address = 'Net::Address::IP::Local'->public ; ## Receiving the c
+urrent IP ##
  if(!$address)
  {
    return $address='192.80.160.16'; ##If No IP address received then 
+return a static IP of order "192....." 
  }
  else
  {
    return $address;
  }    
}

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But it still do not work. When i try to print that IP adress on disconnect then it prints nothing (If it was like Null or 0 in c++ i could have handle it but i dont know how to handle it by doing something like this (if($address==null){ $address='192.80.160.16';}) in case of perl)

Any help please ?

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