ip address to hexadecimal converter

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

| On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:59:21AM -0400, Robert Sarao wrote:
| >        Does anyone have a software package that they love that converts the
| > ip octet address to hexadecimal. Something simple, we just have to do some
| > conversion and it would be a nice tool...

For you JAPH fans, here's one:

#!/usr/bin/perl
for(@ARGV){printf "%08X\n",((($1<<8)+$2<<8)+$3<<8)+$4 if /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/}


No error checking to speak of, and it only works for 4-number IP addresses.
I wonder if it can be compressed any more?  Probably ...
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