Hi monks, i need a script to convert ip's from string representation to bin to save them to my database later.

I came up with something like:

use v5.36;

use Carp qw(croak);
use Socket qw(AF_INET AF_INET6 inet_ntop inet_pton);
use Data::Validate::IP qw(is_ipv4 is_ipv6);

my $ip = $ARGV[0];

if (is_ipv4 $ip) {
   print inet_pton AF_INET, $ip;
}
elsif (is_ipv6 $ip) {
   print inet_pton AF_INET6, $ip;
}
else {
   croak 'Not a valid ip: ' . $ip;
}

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I'm interested in is there a shorter and more convenient way to do this in Perl or not?
For example, in php there is inet-pton that could take both ivp4 or ipv6 and do the right thing.

In reply to Pack ipv4 ipv6 to bin by AlexP

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