Hello swissknife,

If you display the contents of $pip using Data::Dump, say, you’ll see that it actually contains four bytes:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket;
use Data::Dump;

my $server = shift @ARGV;
my $pip = gethostbyname($server);
dd $pip;
my $IP_add = inet_ntoa($pip);
print $IP_add;

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Output:

21:17 >perl 1602_SoPW.pl perlmonks.pair.com
"\xD1\xC5{\x99"
209.197.123.153
21:17 >

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If these bytes don’t appear when you print $pip, that’s likely because they happen to be unprintable.

BTW, the documentation for Socket mentions that gethostbyname is a legacy subroutine.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: perl and getaddrinfo API by Athanasius
in thread perl and getaddrinfo API by swissknife

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