Here is a little more than you need. The pattern match grabs everything up to the first space. The keys in the hash contain the unique ip addresses. The values tell you how many times they appeared during processing. This is a classic counting example. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Socket;

my @ip = ( '159.230.1.1 255.255.224.0',
           '159.230.1.20 255.255.252.0',
           '158.230.1.3 255.255.255.0',
           '159.230.1.3 255.255.255.0',
           '159.230.1.20 255.255.1.1' );

print join ("\n", @ip);
print "\n\n";

my %count;
foreach (@ip) {
  $count{inet_aton($&)}++ if /159\.230\..*?( |$)/;
}

open(FILE, '>ip.txt');

foreach (sort keys %count) {
  print inet_ntoa($_)." appears $count{$_} times.\n";
  print FILE inet_ntoa($_)."\n";
}

close FILE

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UPDATE: Good point on the sort not working out. I put the inet functions in like other posts did. I reread the question and realized the user only wants 159.230 address so I changed the pattern match from /.*? /. That change will also get rid of the leading text if it exists. Of course the \d{1,3} match the other poster mentioned does a little more verification on your data if you decide you need it.
Good luck.

In reply to Re: Match only certain IP Addresses by monktim
in thread Match only certain IP Addresses by monger

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