Re: QtocLstNetCnn IP address in CLLE

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/06/2010, at 4:42 AM, Steve McKay wrote:

> Surely this is a typo.  If the IP address was 10.20.30.40 (for  
> example), how
> would I get the IP address into a BINARY(4) field?

One is a character representation of a number and the other is a  
number. Each part of a dotted decimal address will, when converted to  
a number, fit in 1 byte (i.e., 0 to 255) and therefore four of them  
will fit in four bytes.

The standard way of doing this is to use a socket support API:
	o inet_addr()
or (if supplied)
	o inet_aton()
or (preferred)
	o inet_pton()

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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