Constructor

GioInetAddressnew_from_string

since: 2.22

Declaration [src]

GInetAddress*
g_inet_address_new_from_string (
  const gchar* string
)

Description [src]

Parses string as an IP address and creates a new GInetAddress.

If address is an IPv6 address, it can also contain a scope ID (separated from the address by a %). Note that currently this behavior is platform specific. This may change in a future release.

Available since: 2.22

Parameters

string

Type: const gchar*

A string representation of an IP address.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: GInetAddress

A new GInetAddress corresponding to string, or NULL if string could not be parsed. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

The return value can be NULL.