Description
Convert a network address into a string in dotted format.
#include <winsock.h>
char FAR * PASCAL FAR inet_ntoa ( struct in_addr in );
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Remarks
This function takes an Internet address structure specified by the in parameter. It returns an ASCII string representing the address in "." notation as "a.b.c.d". Note that the string returned by inet_ntoa() resides in memory which is allocated by the Windows Sockets implementation. The application should not make any assumptions about the way in which the memory is allocated. The data is guaranteed to be valid until the next Windows Sockets API call within the same thread, but no longer.
Return Value
If no error occurs, inet_ntoa() returns a char pointer to a static buffer containing the text address in standard "." notation. Otherwise, it returns NULL. The data should be copied before another Windows Sockets call is made.
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