perl and network addresses

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

>   I tried
>
> 	perl -we '$a = inet_addr("192.0.2.42");'
>
> but it complained that inet_addr is not defined.  I suspect there's a
> module somewhere you need to pull in.  Hopefully this is enough to get
> you started.

You likely need to use -MSocket, and then figure out which of the
correct functions in there are analogous to inet_addr.  The ones which
leap to mind are inet_ntoa and inet_aton.  There doesn't seem to be an
inet_addr.
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Seeya,
Paul