How to convert string to IP address and vice versa

Question

how can I convert a string ipAddress (struct in_addr) and vice versa? and how do I turn in unsigned long ipAddress? thanks

Answer 1

inet_ntoa() converts a in_addr to string:

The inet_ntoa function converts an (Ipv4) Internet network address into an ASCII string in Internet standard dotted-decimal format.

inet_addr() does the reverse job

The inet_addr function converts a string containing an IPv4 dotted-decimal address into a proper address for the IN_ADDR structure

PS this the first result googling "in_addr to string"!

Answer 2

The third inet_pton parameter is a pointer to an in_addr structure. After a successful inet_pton call, the in_addr structure will be populated with the address information. The structure's S_addr field contains the IP address in network byte order (reverse order).

Example : 

#include <arpa/inet.h>
uint32_t NodeIpAddress::getIPv4AddressInteger(std::string IPv4Address) {
    int result;
    uint32_t IPv4Identifier = 0;
    struct in_addr addr;
    // store this IP address in sa:
    result = inet_pton(AF_INET, IPv4Address.c_str(), &(addr));
    if (result == -1) {         
gpLogFile->Write(LOGPREFIX, LogFile::LOGLEVEL_ERROR, _T("Failed to convert IP %hs to IPv4 Address. Due to invalid family of %d. WSA Error of %d"), IPv4Address.c_str(), AF_INET, result);
    }
    else if (result == 0) {
        gpLogFile->Write(LOGPREFIX, LogFile::LOGLEVEL_ERROR, _T("Failed to convert IP %hs to IPv4"), IPv4Address.c_str());
    }
    else {
        IPv4Identifier = ntohl(*((uint32_t *)&(addr)));
    }
    return IPv4Identifier;
}

Answer 3

Hexadecimal IP Address to String IP

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    uint32_t ip = 0x0AA40001;
    string ip_str="";
    int temp = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++){
        if (i % 2 == 0)
        {
            temp += ip & 15;
            ip = ip >> 4;
        }
        else
        {
            stringstream ss;
            temp += (ip & 15) * 16;
            ip = ip >> 4;
            ss << temp;
            ip_str = ss.str()+"." + ip_str;
            temp = 0;
        }
    }
    ip_str.pop_back();
    cout << ip_str;
}

Output:10.164.0.1