Hello David,

Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 7:51:29 PM, you wrote:

DU>   I was just checking to see if the first char was a number or a digit
DU>   but there are some cases where a hostname can start with a number.
DU>   (like 3.14159.com for example)

Sorry to reply to my own post, but a friend just pointed out to me
that a hostname can't END in a number. (com/net/org/whatever)

so: if ($hostname =~ /\d$/) { ip } else { hostname }

should work.  I'm still interested in seeing replies though. :-)


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