From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T02:40:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting IP addresses

Joel Watson wrote:
> require 'open-uri'
> 
> page = URI.parse("http://www.whatismyip.com")
> 
> html = page.read
> 
> ip = html.scan(/.*?([0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9] 
> {1,3}).*/).flatten.first
> 

Beautiful! To go with what Joel did...

ip = html.scan( /(([0-9]{1,3}\.?){4})/ ).flatten.first

Zach