Re: Regex to match an IP address that is embedded inside of another string

[GrandFather]

Take a look at Regular expression anchors. In particular \b.

[adamZ88]

Thank you for your prompt response. The colon and other hex characters will always follow the last octet. I Tried your suggestion, and it still matches other ips that begin the same way on the fourth octet. Here is how I modified my code

if ($linebuf =~ /\d+\.$oc1\.$oc2\.$oc3\.$oc4:*/

[stevieb]

As I stated in my above post, you need to get rid of the *.

[adamZ88]

Thank you, that did it. I also had to add "^" at the beginning of my RegEx<\p>

[adamZ88]

Will do, Thank you.