How to validate textbox for IPV4 and IPV6 IPAddresses.

[fastestindian]

Hi,

I am working on the validations of the entered ip addresses but not able to validate using existing methods.
such as IPAddress.TryParse(addrString, out address);

so pls give me some suggessions on this as i have wasted lot of time on it.

Thanks in advance.

[tlhintoq]

You could do it through Regular Expressions (RegEx)

/// method to validate an IP address
/// using regular expressions. The pattern
/// being used will validate an ip address
/// with the range of 1.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
/// </summary>
/// <param name="addr">Address to validate</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public bool IsValidIP(string addr)
{
    //create our match pattern
    string pattern = @"^([1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])(\.
    ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])){3}$";
    //create our Regular Expression object
    Regex check = new Regex(pattern);
    //boolean variable to hold the status
    bool valid = false;
    //check to make sure an ip address was provided
    if (addr == "")
    {
        //no address provided so return false
        valid = false;
    }
    else
    {
        //address provided so use the IsMatch Method
        //of the Regular Expression object
        valid = check.IsMatch(addr, 0);
    }
    //return the results
    return valid;
}

[Plater]

Depending on your need, you would want to include 0.0.0.0 as well