I can execute the following SQL query in MySQL: 
mysql> SELECT INET_ATON('192.168.1.100');
+----------------------------+
| INET_ATON('192.168.1.100') |
+----------------------------+
|                 3232235876 |
+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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I can then execute another query to reverse the process: 
mysql> SELECT INET_NTOA('3232235876');
+-------------------------+
| INET_NTOA('3232235876') |
+-------------------------+
| 192.168.1.100           |
+-------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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How would I duplicate this process in Perl? There is an ‘inet_aton’ operator in Perl but it does not return a decimal number as shown above. I would like the ability to print this number out to the screen. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Socket;

my $string = inet_aton("204.87.241.1");
print "$string\n";

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Thanks in advance for any help.

In reply to INET_NTOA Equivalent by turbo3k

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