waterkip / regexp-ip

NAME

Regexp::IP - Regular expression for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

SYNOPSIS

  use Regexp::IP qw($IPv4_re $IPv6_re);

  $address =~ /^$IPv4_re$/ and print "IPv4 address\n";
  $address =~ /^$IPv6_re$/ and print "IPv6 address\n";

DESCRIPTION

This module exports the $IPv6_re regular expression that matches any
valid IPv6 address as described in "RFC 2373 - 2.2 Text Representation
of Addresses". Any string not compliant with such RFC will be rejected.

To match full strings use "/^$IPv6_re$/".

Additionally, this module also exports the $IPv4_re regular expression.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 by Salvador Fandi�o <[email protected]>

Copyright (C) 2014 by Wesley Schwengle <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.18.0 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

Additionally, you are allowed to use the regexp generated by the module
in any way you want, without any restriction. For instance, you are
allowed to copy it verbating in your program.

SEE ALSO

Regexp::IPv6