Thread: something weird....

ok here is what im trying to do

user inputs ip # <- should i store the ip as a LPSTR or is this a bad idead?

127.0.0.1 <- here is the real problem i want to break up this ip or any ip i enter into 4 distinct parts...

eg:
a=127
b=0
c=0
d=1

i have been trying some stuff for the last couple hours and just cant get it

help plz!

b0rk

Originally posted by gnu-ehacks
Uh...Could you tell them to input each of the numbers one by one? That could work...Also, depending on what you are going to do with them, it is probably best to use a string with that.

nope i cant have them inputing the parts one by one... and also i need to be able to subtract and add to the ip# segments so i guess i will stick with LPSTR

All of those numbers in an IP address are delimited by a common character. The .

So search the input string for the first occurrence of . Then use the value from that as the starting point for your next search of .

There are several C functions that will search a string for substrings.

char InputString[15];
char LookFor='.';

strcpy(InputString,"012.345.678.9AB.CDE.F");

char *ptr=strchr(InputString,LookFor)

In Windows this might be

char *ptr=strchr(InputString,VK_PERIOD);

I don't remember all of the virtual key codes for Windows, but they are pretty straightforward VK_<key name>.

if (ptr)
{
//Found occurrence of LookFor at ptr-InputString
}
else
{
//Did not find any occurrence of LookFor
}