after staring at this screen for about 20 minutes I finally gave up and have posted this here, i need a reg-ex that will pull the ip out of an ifconfig -a of the local machiene.

but i cannot figure out how to make it work on both types of OS's that we use here as Sun does it their way and Linux does it differently. so here are the two things that i need to match. i need the inet adder of eth0 and hme0,

thanks for helping with this simple question.
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:48:1F:B1  
          inet addr:192.168.0.100  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.2
+55.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:163706 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:140415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:24892923 (23.7 Mb)  TX bytes:35772845 (34.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1057866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1057866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:88084418 (84.0 Mb)  TX bytes:88084418 (84.0 Mb)


........
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 
+1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 inde
+x 2
        inet 192.168.132.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.132.255

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thanks for the help

jcpunk

by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be

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