Appart from the suggestions from the fellow monks, I should point you at NetAddr::IP. You can very easily see wether something is (or can be converted to) an IP address by saying:

use NetAddr::IP;

if (defined NetAddr::IP->new($myip)) {
   ... Your code goes here ...
}
else {
  die "Do not feed me with garbage!\n";
}

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Also, you want to accept IP addresses for something. NetAddr::IP makes most of what you might want to do easy. There's also a Tutorial within the monastery about how to do stuff with this.

You can download the module from here or any friendly CPAN mirror.

Disclaimer: I wrote NetAddr::IP so I might be a bit biased :) Best regards

-lem, but some call me fokat

In reply to Re: IP Address Sanity by fokat
in thread IP Address Sanity by Anonymous Monk

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