cybersecurity: Extract all IP addresses from a string

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Extract all IP addresses from a string

Description

Parse a string and vectorize the IP addresses within it

Usage

extract_IP(input)

Arguments

input

input string containing IP

Value

extract_IP returns a vector of IP addresses

Examples

# Extract all IP addresses from a string

# Example 1
# This example demonstrates the separate
# extraction of an IP address one per vector element:
str1 = c("Two IP(66.544.33.54) addresses
were discovered in the scan.
One was at 92.234.1.0.",
"The other IP was 62.3.45.255.")
extract_IP(str1)

# Example 2
# This example demonstrates the extraction
# of multiple IP addresses from a single vector element:
str2 = "Two IP addresses were discovered
in the scan. One was at 92.234.1.0.
The other IP was 62.3.45.255."
extract_IP(str2)

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