How do you validate that a string is a valid IPv4 address in C++?

Question

I don\'t need to validate that the IP address is reachable or anything like that. I just want to validate that the string is in dotted-quad (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) IPv4 format, w

Answer 1

Here's one straightforward method.

bool IsIPAddress(std::string & ipaddr)
    {    

    StringTokenizer quads(ipaddr,".");

    if (quads.countTokens() != 4) return false;

    for (int i=0; i < 4; i++)
      {
      std::string quad = quads.nextToken();
      for (int j=0; j < quad.length(); j++
         if (!isdigit(quad[j])) return false;

      int quad = atoi(quads.GetTokenAt(i));
      if (quad < 0) || (quad > 255)) return false;
      }

    return true;
    }