John Davies <john.davies@philips.com> wrote:

> If my address is 192.168.1.112 everything works
> If my address is 192.168.001.112 it doesn’t work and throws an exception
> about not finding the host.
>  
> It’s not a big deal, but it sure took me a long time to track down.
>  
> Is there some sort of Boost magic I can do to convert the bad address
> into a good address?

If you still need to remove leading zeroes from the address, consider
using Boost.Regex (or stdlib regex if you have a C++11 toolset).

The regular expression "\b0+(?=[1-9])" will match one or more leading
zeroes that precede a non-zero digit. Replace each match with an empty
string.

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    Mark Stallard
    Business Application Services

    Global Business Services Information Technology
    Raytheon Company