Private IP Address Identifier in Regular Expression

Question

I\'m wondering if this is the best way to match a string that starts with a private IP address (Perl-style Regex):

(^127\\.0\\.0\\.1)|(^192\\.168)|(^10\\.)|(         


        

Answer 1

Looks right. Personally, I'd change the first one to:

^127\.0 

With this: (^127\.0\.0\.1) you looking for anything that starts with 127.0.0.1 and will miss out on 127.0.0.2*, 127.0.2.*, 127.0.* etc.