Parsing IP Address to Octets

[Anon]

I'm trying to create a piece of code that will take an IP address from a gethostbyname into individual Octets.

For example,

Say the gethostbyname returns the IP address of 127.0.0.1, how do I take each individual octet and put each one into it's own variable.

$octet1 = 127
$octet2 = 0
and so forth.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Xanatos

[znouza]

try:

ereg(\"([0-9]{1,3})\.([0-9]{1,3})\.([0-9]{1,3})\.([0-9]{1,3})\",$IP,$arg);
so then test $arg[1]..$arg[4]

or
$arg=split(\".\",$IP);

or
list($octet1,$octet2,$octet4,$octet4)=split(\".\",$IP);