I tried several solutions. But is it possible to use Net::Netmask to do this:

(This is just demo code to illustrate my point) 

%maskcount = ( "/25"  =>  "128",
             "/26"  =>  "64",
             "/27"  =>  "32",
             "/28"  =>  "16");

# loop POPs
while($line=<STDIN>) {
  chomp($line);
  next unless ($line=~/^\d/);

  ($ipbase,$mask)=split(/;/,$line);

  @ip=split(/\./,$ipbase);
  $areacode =~ s/^0//;
  print "$areacode: $ipbase/$mask\n";

  # do not load first (=network) and second (=gateway) ip addressess
  $startip=2;

  # do not load last (=broadcast) ip address
  $endip=$maskcount{$mask}-1;
  print $endip;

  for ($cnt=$startip;$cnt<$endip;$cnt++) {
    $ipend[0]=$ip[0];
    $ipend[1]=$ip[1];
    $ipend[2]=$ip[2];
    $ipend[3]=$ip[3]+$cnt;
    if ($ipend[3]>255) { $ipend[2]=$ip[2]+1; $ipend[3]=$ip[3]-255; }
    $ipend = join(".",@ipend);

    print "$ipend\n";
  }
}

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I just want to generate a list of IP's. I know the start ip and the network mask and want to generate the whole list of IP's from that range. I tried this approach, but there , must be a cleaner way to do this...

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