how to convert IP address in char[] to Uint32_t in c?

Question

I write a program which takes IP address as an argument and i wanted to store this IP address in the unit32_t. I can easily convert uint32_t to back to character array. How

Answer 1

You use the inet_pton. function

And for the other way around you should have used inet_ntop.

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For Windows-specific documentation, see inet_pton and inet_ntop.

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Note that the functions can be used for both IPv4 and IPv6.