in reply to Regular expression range question (was: Clueless newbie - help!)
Checking to see if an ip address is within a certain range is doable with a regexp....but I don't think that's the best way to handle it as the regexp quickly becomes really nasty.
Rather, check out a module called Net::IP::Match. From it's description it seems to do exactly what you need.
HTH
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