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I have a database that keeps ip addresses stored as 32 bit integers. I have to extract this and make an ascii string for a config file. If this were C, i'd stuff the address in the appropriate part of in_addr, and call inet_ntoa. Can't see how to get into the structures for Perl.. and all the references i find to inet_ntoa on web searches either
a. get a value using gethostbyname (not applicable)
b. talk about opaque values (which I don't understand)
c. seem to be using a structure, but are not clear how one manipulates the structure.
Here's what I'm trying to do: 
use Socket;
#=================================================================
$var=0x0a0a0a01;   #simulate the value from the database
printf(STDERR  "DEBUG, var is %4.4x \n", $var);
print STDERR "DEBUG, var is $var\n";
$peer_addr = inet_ntoa($var);
print "DEBUG, $peer_addr";

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which gives the infamous output of: 
DEBUG, var is a0a0a01 
DEBUG, var is 168430081
Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa, length is 9, should be 4

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9. Hmmm is it relevant that that is the number of digits in the "print" value.. is it being stored in some format other than integer?

In reply to inet_ntoa question by Funkster

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