javascript regular expression to check for IP addresses

Question

I have several ip addresses like:

1. 115.42.150.37
2. 115.42.150.38
3. 115.42.150.50

What type of regular expression should I write if I want to search for the all the 3 ip addresses? Eg, if I do 115.42.150.* (I will be able to search for all 3 ip addresses)

What I can do now is something like: /[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}\.[0-9]{1-3}/ but it can't seems to work well.

Thanks.

Answer 1

May be late but, someone could try:

Example of VALID IP address

115.42.150.37
192.168.0.1
110.234.52.124

Example of INVALID IP address

210.110 – must have 4 octets
255 – must have 4 octets
y.y.y.y – only digits are allowed
255.0.0.y – only digits are allowed
666.10.10.20 – octet number must be between [0-255]
4444.11.11.11 – octet number must be between [0-255]
33.3333.33.3 – octet number must be between [0-255]

JavaScript code to validate an IP address

function ValidateIPaddress(ipaddress) {  
  if (/^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$/.test(ipaddress)) {  
    return (true)  
  }  
  alert("You have entered an invalid IP address!")  
  return (false)  
}