any ideas on how i can tell if 1 ip is higher than the other?

heres what ive thought might work, but didn't. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;



# ip address limit
#   83.1.1.1
my $a_end = 83;
my $b_end = 1;
my $c_end = 1;
my $d_end = 1;

# ip address start
#   82.1.1.1
my $a_start = 82;
my $b_start = 1;
my $c_start = 1;
my $d_start = 1;


my @calc = ($a_start, $b_start, $c_start, $d_start, $a_end, $b_end, $c
+_end, $d_end);

my $calc;
my $calc1;
my $calc2;





foreach $calc (@calc) {
if ($calc<100) {
   if ($calc<10) {
      $calc="00".$calc;
      }
   else {
      $calc="0".$calc;
      }
   }
}

$calc1 = $a_start . $b_start . $c_start . $d_start;
$calc2 = $a_end . $b_end . $c_end . $d_end;

print $calc1." + ".$calc2." = \n";


if ($calc1>=$calc2) {
   print "error!\n";
   exit(0);
   }

exit(0);

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