Venerable Monks:

I need some help or ideas on a better way of breaking out individual IP addresses from a range of IP addresses.  Here's an example of the file I'm working with:

172.17.119.2 # Comments are here...
172.17.119.4-5 # Comments are here...
172.19-21.254.2-3 # Comments are here...
192.168.1.1-3 # Comments are here...

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The above break out into the following addresses, and this is the output needed:

172.17.119.2
172.17.119.4
172.17.119.5
172.19.254.2
172.19.254.3
172.20.254.2
172.20.254.3
172.21.254.2
172.21.254.3
192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.3

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Now, either I'm really brain dead today or what not, but the solutions to this in my mind is coming out to be a huge series of if...then and foreach or while statements to parse the data. Can someone please give me an idea, suggestion, sample or something, that will make this a bit easier to get done???

Thanks for your help!

Robert Maxwell

In reply to Need a better way to break out a range of addresses... by RMaxwell

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