Regex to match an IP address [closed]

Question

I am newbie with regex and I want to use preg_match function to find if a string is an IP adress.

For example if $string = "45.56.78.222" or something like that , preg_match($regex, $string) should return true. So, what $regex should be?

Answer 1

Don't use a regex when you don't need to :)

$valid = filter_var($string, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP);

Though if you really do want a regex...

$valid = preg_match('/^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\z/', $string);

The regex however will only validate the format, the max for any octet is the max for an unsigned byte, or 255.

This is why IPv6 is necessary - an IPv4 address is only 32bits long and the internet is popular :)

Answer 2

/^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$/

should do for your example (which does contain a string that is not an IP address). And of course, it's only an IPv4 address.

Answer 3

/^(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$/ 

This will check for the Perfect Range including if a Range is Higher than 255 from any of 4.