InetAddress.toString() returns a forward slash

Question

I have a variable packet of type DatagramPacket. While packet.getAddress().toString() results in a String representing an the IP address, it has an ext

Answer 1

If you just want the IP, use the host address:

String address = InetAddress.getByName("stackoverflow.com").getHostAddress();

If you just want the host name, use

String hostname = InetAddress.getByName("stackoverflow.com").getHostName();

The slash you're seeing is probably when you do an implicit toString() on the returned InetAddress as you try to print it out, which prints the host name and address delimited by a slash (e.g. stackoverflow.com/64.34.119.12). You could use

String address = InetAddress.getByName("stackoverflow.com").toString().split("/")[1];
String hostname = InetAddress.getByName("stackoverflow.com").toString().split("/")[0];

But there is no reason at all to go to a String intermediary here. InetAddress keeps the two fields separate intrinsically.