Unix Programming - Re: how to get the numbers-and-dots notation back from network byte

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Re: how to get the numbers-and-dots notation back from network byte

Måns Rullgård

2004-08-27, 6:21 pm

wim.deprez+google@student.luc.ac.be (Wim Deprez) writes:

> Hello group,
>
> my input is a network byte order long that represents an ip address,
> and I want to the char * numbers-and-dots notation back, for example
> to write it out to the user or something. How do I do that?
>
> a stupid example:
>
> int main (int argc, char* argv[])
> {
> unsigned long ma = inet_addr("185.21.0.9");
>
> printf("%s",XXX(ma));
> return 0;
> }
>
> where XXX(ma) becomes "185.21.0.9" again.

inet_ntoa()

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