How to convert string to IP address and vice versa

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Use inet_ntop() and inet_pton() if you need it other way around. Do not use inet_ntoa(), inet_aton() and similar as they are deprecated and don’t support ipv6.

Here is a nice guide with quite a few examples.

// IPv4 demo of inet_ntop() and inet_pton()

struct sockaddr_in sa;
char str[INET_ADDRSTRLEN];

// store this IP address in sa:
inet_pton(AF_INET, "192.0.2.33", &(sa.sin_addr));

// now get it back and print it
inet_ntop(AF_INET, &(sa.sin_addr), str, INET_ADDRSTRLEN);

printf("%s\n", str); // prints "192.0.2.33"

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