Part of the Samples Website. 8/16/97.

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samples.NewIn97.numericIPaddress

«Return true if it's something like 206.204.24.2.

on numericIPaddress (host)

local (i)

if string.countFields (host, '.') != 4

return (false)

for i = 1 to 4

try

number (string.nthField (host, '.', i))

else «didn't coerce to a number, must contain non-numeric chars

return (false)

return (true)

This page was last built on Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 6:44:04 PM. You can download the current set of sample scripts from our FTP site. Dave