Thanks for that but that code does not seem to work for me. The active ip address on my host machine is on the hme0 interface. The code you supplied got me the ip address on another interface. This is why I was trying to go through the hosts file to get my ip address. This has the primary ip address on the host. The trouble is that my code to extract from this file is not working. Would you know what is wrong with this code? I can't figure what is happening: 
$hostname = `hostname`;
print "hostname is $hostname\n";

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This works to get the hostname. It is the following bit of code that does not work to translate that hostname into an ip address: 
$source = `ypcat hosts | grep '$hostname$'`;
$source =~ /\d+.\d+.\d+.\d/;
print "source is $addr\n";

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