This is code I wrote to test an idea to solve the problem
Dominus posted in
Challenge Problem: Merging Network Addresses. The benchmark shows an order of magnitude speed increase over using
Net::CIDR, as I had originally suggested. And it's an unusual (ab-)use of the regex engine. Enjoy.
(Yes, I'm writing a column about my findings. {grin})
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$|++;
use Socket qw(inet_aton inet_ntoa);
sub cidr2bits {
my $cidr = shift;
my ($addr, $maskbits) = $cidr =~ /^([\d.]+)\/(\d+)$/
or die "bad format for cidr: $cidr";
substr(unpack("B*", inet_aton($addr)), 0, $maskbits);
}
sub bits2cidr {
my $bits = shift;
inet_ntoa(pack "B*",
substr("${bits}00000000000000000000000000000000", 0, 32))
. "/" . length($bits);
}
sub mergecidr {
local $_ = join "", sort map { cidr2bits($_)."\n" } @_;
1 while s/^(\d+)0\n\1[1]\n/$1\n/m or s/^(\d+)\n\1\d+\n/$1\n/m;
map bits2cidr($_), split /\n/;
}
my @first = qw(
209.152.214.112/30
209.152.214.116/31
209.152.214.118/31
);
my @second = qw(
209.152.214.112/30
209.152.214.116/32
209.152.214.118/31
);
my @third = qw(
209.152.214.112/31
209.152.214.116/31
209.152.214.118/31
);
if (1) {
print join "----\n", map
join("",
"from:\n", map(" $_\n", @$_),
"to:\n", map(" $_\n", mergecidr(@$_))),
\@first, \@second, \@third;
}
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