IP regex

Gregg R.Allen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm sure this is very simple, I just can't seem to learn Regexes:

I have been given the chore of taking a DB table of client records, 
which has a field called IP address.  Whenever a client logs onto our 
site, I'm supposed to display the IP address they logged on from THE 
LAST TIME they visited, as a security measure.

This field is a MySQl varchar(30). Since this field was added at table 
creation, but not used until recently, many of the fields contain NULLs 
or junk text.

Can someone point me in the direction of creating REGEX to test whether 
an IP address is valid. (Valid in the sense of syntax i.e. 
192.168.24.20 is  valid, but
277.22.49.75, or 65.23 is not)?

Thanks in advance

Gregg Allen


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