Re: Sorting IP addresses
Re: Sorting IP addresses
- Subject: Re: Sorting IP addresses
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:46:50 -0700
At 18:43 +1100 12/19/03, Matthew Smith wrote:
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Did anyone suggest adding leading zeros to each part and sorting as text?
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It's even readable.
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24.47.176.225 -> 024.047.176.225
I didn't suggest it but I did warn against it. It's worth repeating I guess.
In your version above 024 is properly interpreted as an octal number following C/UNIX conventions. It will fail or point to an incorrect site if sent to a browser or a DNS server.
It fooled me once.
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