Just want some advice on pulling the information I want from output that I am getting in a script. I am basically doing:  `host google.com 8.8.8.8` or something to that effect. That output when just using the command line will be something like this: 
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases: 

google.com has address 74.125.113.147

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What would be the best way to extract the 74.125.113.147 in a general way so it could be done with whatever website is checked? I did a previous matching for an ip that looked like this: 
if ($found_addr =~ m/^(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)$/) {
.
.
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But THAT wouldn't work because the output shows the domain server we're using, in this case google's 8.8.8.8 Can I pull something by line number? update 1/27 Ended up using 
 
if ($found_addr =~ m/(\d.*)/) {

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On the linux boxes since they pull up the host info a little differently. overall, this was pretty successful though. thanks for the advice.

In reply to More complicated regular expression? by jaldama

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