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Re^4: Wildcard usage for REMOTE_ADDR comparison

by NetWallah (Monsignor)
on Oct 21, 2012 at 14:49 UTC ( #1000221=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

in reply to Re^3: Wildcard usage for REMOTE_ADDR comparison
in thread Wildcard usage for REMOTE_ADDR comparison

The "eq" does not work the same as regular expression pattern matching. The latter is much more powerful.

Your question:

what would a wild card for :
if ($ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} eq '180.76.6.') {
is not specific enough. The answer depends on what you want to match against.
For example, to match any digits (actually, between 1 and 3 digits) after the last ".", but require the initial 3 octets to be identical to what is specified, use:
if ($ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} =~/180\.76\.6\.\d{1,3}/) {
My previous post shows a somewhat more flexible regular expression that allows but does not require leading zeros in an octet.

However, as afoken (++) pointed out, this may be too much flexibility if the value you are checking for comes from a "trusted" source, like the CGI module.

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