THX for the comments ... I rewrote the validateMask sub, including your

return
  unless $mask =~/^(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})$/;

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My new version is far simpler than my original post, using Socket, unpack, and join to give a 32 character binary string, then searching for the pattern /01/. If we find it, bad mask. Everything else then must be good ( unless someone finds a fatal flaw here, too! :b ).

I wasn't initially that excited about requiring Socket, but then I figured this will likely be used (if at all) in a networking script, so Socket.pm is ok.


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In reply to Re: Re: validateMask (regex tweak, 30bit mask, CPAN modules) by idnopheq
in thread validateMask by idnopheq

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