Re: PROPOSAL: New function ffap-ip-at-point

[Brian Cully]

Iñigo Serna <inigoserna@gmx.com> writes:

> Parsing IPv6 addresses is much more complex: can be shortened 
> and even
> one or more leading zeros from any group of hexadecimal digits 
> could
> be
> removed. Too much work for this humble patch.

This is also true for IPv4: any string of zeroes may be elided, 
just like IPv6.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ditto:~% ping 127.1
PING 127.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.030 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.033 ms
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-bjc