NAME

Validate::Net - Format validation and more for Net:: related strings

SYNOPSIS

use Validate::Net;

my $good = '123.1.23.123';
my $bad = '123.432.21.12';

foreach ( $good, $bad ) {
	if ( Validate::Net->ip( $_ ) ) {
		print "'$_' is a valid ip\n";
	} else {
		print "'$_' is not a valid ip address because:\n";
		print Validate::Net->reason . "\n";
	}
}

DESCRIPTION

Validate::Net is a class designed to assist with validation internet related strings. It can be used to validate CGI forms, internally by modules, and in any place where you want to check that an internet related string is valid before handing it off to a Net::* class.

Whenever a test is false, you can access the reason through the reason method.

METHODS

ip( $ip, @options )

The ip method is used to validate the format, and more, of an ip address. If called with no options, it will just do a basic format check of the ip, checking that it conforms to the basic dotted quad format. Depending on the options, additional checks may be made.

There are no options available at this time.

BUGS

Unknown

SUPPORT

Contact the author

AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy
cpan@ali.as
http://ali.as/

SEE ALSO

Net::*

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.