Net_IsIPAddress

Net_IsIPAddress(sValue,bMustBeIP)

Validates if the supplied string is a valid IP4 address.
The result is returned in gbValue.

Arguments

ARGUMENT

DESCRIPTION

TYPE

sValue

The string to be validated

String

bMustBeIP

TRUE if the string must be an IP4 address.

Boolean

Return Type

Boolean, TRUE if function completed successfully.
If bMustBeIP is set to TRUE the supplied string must be validated as an ID4 address, otherwise the function will return FALSE

Remarks

Example

The following example will validate if the boot server value registered by OSDGui, is a computer name or an IP address, and then set the IP address in the sBootServerIP variable.

(info) NOTE: The BootServer value read from the registry in this example, is already available in the gsBootServer variable set by OSD_Initialize.

Private Function IncludeScript(sScriptFile)
 '...
End Function

'Begin
  bStatus=True
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeScript("customlib.cis")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeLibrary("Capalib.cin")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=IncludeLibrary("Osdlib.cin")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=Job_Start("WS","Script Name","1.0","ScriptName.log","INSTALL")
  If bStatus Then bStatus=OSD_Initialize()

  If bStatus Then bStatus=Reg_GetString("HKLM","SOFTWARE\CapaSystems\CapaInstaller\OSD","BootServer",False)
  If bStatus and gbValue Then sBootServer=gsValue
  If bStatus Then bStatus=Net_IsIPAddress(sBootServer,False) 
    If bStatus And gbValue Then
      'it is an ip
      sBootServerIP = sBootServer
  Else
	  'it is a computername
	  If bStatus Then bStatus=Net_ResolveIP(sBootServer)
	  sBootServerIP = gsValue
  End If

  Job_End(bStatus)
'End main

See Also

IncludeScript function, Net_ResolveIP