Regexp::Common::net(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioRegexp::Common::net(3)NAMERegexp::Common::net-- provide regexes for IPv4 addresses.
SYNOPSIS
use Regexp::Common qw /net/;
while (<>) {
/$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and print "Dotted decimal IP address";
/$RE{net}{IPv4}{hex}/ and print "Dotted hexadecimal IP address";
/$RE{net}{IPv4}{oct}{-sep => ':'}/ and
print "Colon separated octal IP address";
/$RE{net}{IPv4}{bin}/ and print "Dotted binary IP address";
/$RE{net}{MAC}/ and print "MAC address";
/$RE{net}{MAC}{oct}{-sep => " "}/ and
print "Space separated octal MAC address";
}
DESCRIPTION
Please consult the manual of Regexp::Common for a general description
of the works of this interface.
Do not use this module directly, but load it via Regexp::Common.
This modules gives you regular expressions for various style IPv4 and
MAC (or ethernet) addresses.
$RE{net}{IPv4}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid IP address in "dotted decimal".
Note that while 318.99.183.11 is not a valid IP address, it does match
"/$RE{net}{IPv4}/", but this is because 318.99.183.11 contains a valid
IP address, namely 18.99.183.11. To prevent the unwanted matching, one
needs to anchor the regexp: "/^$RE{net}{IPv4}$/".
For this pattern and the next four, under "-keep" (See Regexp::Common):
$1 captures the entire match
$2 captures the first component of the address
$3 captures the second component of the address
$4 captures the third component of the address
$5 captures the final component of the address
$RE{net}{IPv4}{dec}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid IP address in "dotted decimal"
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/[.]/".
$RE{net}{IPv4}{hex}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid IP address in "dotted hexadeci-
mal", with the letters "A" to "F" capitalized.
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/[.]/". "-sep=""" and "-sep=" "" are useful alterna-
tives.
$RE{net}{IPv4}{oct}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid IP address in "dotted octal"
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/[.]/".
$RE{net}{IPv4}{bin}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid IP address in "dotted binary"
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/[.]/".
$RE{net}{MAC}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid MAC or ethernet address as colon
separated hexadecimals.
For this pattern, and the next four, under "-keep" (See Regexp::Com-
mon):
$1 captures the entire match
$2 captures the first component of the address
$3 captures the second component of the address
$4 captures the third component of the address
$5 captures the fourth component of the address
$6 captures the fifth component of the address
$7 captures the sixth and final component of the address
This pattern, and the next four, have a "subs" method as well, which
will transform a matching MAC address into so called canonical format.
Canonical format means that every component of the address will be
exactly two hexadecimals (with a leading zero if necessary), and the
components will be separated by a colon.
The "subs" method will not work for binary MAC addresses if the Perl
version predates 5.6.0.
$RE{net}{MAC}{dec}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid MAC address as colon separated
decimals.
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/:/".
$RE{net}{MAC}{hex}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid MAC address as colon separated
hexadecimals, with the letters "a" to "f" in lower case.
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/:/".
$RE{net}{MAC}{oct}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid MAC address as colon separated
octals.
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/:/".
$RE{net}{MAC}{bin}{-sep}
Returns a pattern that matches a valid MAC address as colon separated
binary numbers.
If "-sep=P" is specified the pattern P is used as the separator. By
default P is "qr/:/".
$RE{net}{domain}
Returns a pattern to match domains (and hosts) as defined in RFC 1035.
Under I{-keep} only the entire domain name is returned.
RFC 1035 says that a single space can be a domainname too. So, the pat-
tern returned by $RE{net}{domain} recognizes a single space as well.
This is not always what people want. If you want to recognize domain-
names, but not a space, you can do one of two things, either use
/(?! )$RE{net}{domain}/
or use the "{-nospace}" option (without an argument).
REFERENCES
RFC 1035
Mockapetris, P.: DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION.
November 1987.
SEE ALSO
Regexp::Common for a general description of how to use this interface.
HISTORY
$Log: net.pm,v $
Revision 2.105 2004/12/28 23:31:54 abigail
Replaced C<\d> with [0-9] (Unicode reasons)
Revision 2.104 2004/06/30 15:11:29 abigail
Discuss unwanted matching
Revision 2.103 2004/06/09 21:47:01 abigail
dec/oct greediness
Revision 2.102 2003/03/12 22:26:35 abigail
-nospace switch for domain names
Revision 2.101 2003/02/01 22:55:31 abigail
Changed Copyright years
Revision 2.100 2003/01/21 23:19:40 abigail
The whole world understands RCS/CVS version numbers, that 1.9 is an
older version than 1.10. Except CPAN. Curse the idiot(s) who think
that version numbers are floats (in which universe do floats have
more than one decimal dot?).
Everything is bumped to version 2.100 because CPAN couldn't deal
with the fact one file had version 1.10.
Revision 1.8 2003/01/10 11:03:28 abigail
Added complete CVS history.
Revision 1.7 2002/08/05 22:02:06 abigail
Typo fix.
Revision 1.6 2002/08/05 20:36:10 abigail
Added $RE{net}{domain}
Revision 1.5 2002/08/05 12:16:59 abigail
Fixed 'Regex::' and 'Rexexp::' typos to 'Regexp::' (Found my Mike Castle).
Revision 1.4 2002/08/01 10:00:01 abigail
Got rid of the split // in the "subs" method of MAC addresses with
configurable seperator, as this may lead to incorrect results (for
instance, if the separator is the empty string).
Revision 1.3 2002/07/31 23:27:57 abigail
Added regexes for MAC addresses.
Revision 1.2 2002/07/28 22:57:59 abigail
Tests to pinpoint a bug in Regexp::Common's _decache.
Revision 1.1 2002/07/25 23:53:38 abigail
Factored out of Regexp::Common.
AUTHOR
Damian Conway damian@conway.org.
MAINTAINANCE
This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.nl).
BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
Bound to be plenty.
For a start, there are many common regexes missing. Send them in to
regexp-common@abigail.nl.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2004, Damian Conway and Abigail. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
(see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)
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