inet_aton returns the address as a 4 byte string. Each byte of the string represents one of the numbers of the IP address. In this format, they can be sorted lexically.
use Socket qw( inet_aton );
use List::MoreUtils qw( apply );
my $file_name = "ipsvisiting.txt";
open (my $fh, '<', $file_name)
or die("Unable to open file \"$file_name\": $!\n");
my @sorted = map { substr($_, 4) }
sort
map { inet_aton($_) . $_ }
apply { chomp }
<$fh>;
print "$_\n"
foreach @sorted;
I started writing this when there were no replies, but I got sidetracked. Hopefully, this approach hasn't been suggested already.
I made some change to your code:
- I use the safer 3-arg open.
- I check the result of open.
- I used lexicals where possible.
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