Identifying an IP address

[Phil Davis]

If you just want to detect the presence of IP address lines, you could do 
something like:

filter tList with "[1-255].[0-255].[0-255].[1-255]"
return (the number of lines in tList <> 0)

Phil Davis



jbv wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> does anyone have a function that checks a string
> and returns true if it contains an IP address ?
> In the data I'm working with, if a string contains
> an IP, the whole string is the IP (which means
> there isn't any extra junk). I guess this should make
> things easier...
> 
> so far I'm running a test on strings that returns true
> if it contains only numbers and dots... but I wonder
> if that's enough...
> 
> Thanks,
> JB