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in reply to Re^2: Don't Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses!
in thread Don't Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses!

It works inside the correct context. For example, if you supply a leading ^ and trailing $ then all is well. You have to supply your own context.
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