On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:02 -0600, John Trammell wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:49 -0600, Ariel Sánchez Mora wrote: > > > So far i've been able to store ip addresses as strings like > > you would > > > type them in DOS, for ex, '192.168.0.1'. This serves me > > great since my > > > application uses IP addresses as strings in all cases. I've done > > > queries with the IP column , for example, select office_name from > > > table_1 where ip='10.100.1.1'; and have never had any problems. > > > However, if you plan on sorting based on this column, strings with > > > periods do not behave correctly, and the answers to my previous > > > question on this list do not apply; it makes a good aproximation, > > > though. > > You might want to look into MySQL functions INET_ATON() and INET_NTOA(): > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/miscellaneous-functions.html >
WOW, thank you! learn something every day. This is why I love the IT field! :) Thanks again. -- Best regards, ~WILL~ Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch1.asc Key: http://code-heads.com/keys/ch2.asc Linux Commands: http://code-heads.com/commands Linux Registered User: 406084 (http://counter.li.org/)
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