Thread: Help Parsing String into an ip address

So im trying to parse a string into a Ip Address but i have a problem, the IPAddress.Parse method only works for ipv4 address's how do i parse ANY Ip address into a string, if i use the IPaddress.Parse method on my public(remote) IP it throws an exception but on ipv4 local ip it doesn't how do i parse ANY ip address the user inputs as a string as an Ip Address? Please help

Holy balls. After you type a sentence and put a period, you make a space. Take my syntax as an example. Seriously, that was painful as hell to read.

You mention your local IP address being ipv4, so I'm assuming your "public(remote)" ip address is ipv6? I've never used ipv6 before, but a quick test...

Code:

// a random ipv6 address
String test_ip = "2001:0db8:85a3:0042:0000:8a2e:0370:7334";
// convert to IPAddress object
IPAddress test_addr = IPAddress.Parse(test_ip);
// confirm it worked?
Console.Write(test_addr);

...showed the IPAddress object as being capable of supporting this feature. I can only suggest that you are inputting a badly formatted ip address. Perhaps you could provide an example of a user input which throws the exception?

String.Split()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ing.split.aspx

Thanks guys, the problem was bad input, i apologize for the grammatical errors in my post!