On 01/04/17 00:35, Ed Manning wrote: > > What's the best way to validate a string contains a IP address
It depends on how thorough you want to be. You can define a regex to check that its 4 groups of numbers separated by periods. Or you can split the string into fields and validate that the values are each less than 255 Or you could try connecting to it and see if you get a response... How sure do you need to be? -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
