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How to store human readable IP in struct in_addr?

Say if you have the following IP address: 

192.168.0.255

How can I store that human readable IP address into a struct in_addr? I'm brand new to network programming in C at this low level, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • You can do

    struct in_addr p;
inet_aton("192.168.0.255", &p.s_addr);