> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > Check \df and \fo. There is a >> and << operators that do subnet
> > testing.
>
> [I assume you meant \do]
>
> Cool. I checked out what other functions as well. I don't see a couple
> that were discussed early on though. Specifically, how about functions
> to extract the host, the network or the netmask from an address?
>
> Here are the functions I had suggested.
>
> netmask('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == 255.255.255.0
> masklen('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == 24
> host('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == 192.3.4.5
> network('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == 192.3.4.0
>
> and perhaps;
>
> class('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == C
> classnet('192.3.4.5/24::cidr') == 192.3.4
>
> Can I help code up some of this stuff?
Yes, we need those. Code them up, and I will add them as standard
types.
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