Re: IP Address support in spreadsheets?

[Christopher Morrow via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

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apparnetly is inet_ntoa maybe? :)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM Tom Beecher via NANOG
<nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> If you had to in GSheets, I would just recreate inet_aton and inet_ntoa in
> Apps Script. It's just bit shifts and ORs, shouldnt be hard.
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM Bryan Fields via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone found a solution to represent IPv4 addresses in a spreadsheet,
> > preferably Google Sheets?  I'm not here to debate the use of spreadsheets
> > for
> > tracking IP addresses, just find something better than storing v4 dotted
> > decimal as text in a spreadsheet.  We don't need v6 at this time; we're
> > using
> > a spreadsheet for tracking addressing, v6 is beyond us.
> >
> > At minimum we need to store it as a 32 bit INT, and display as dotted
> > decimal.
> >   If there's some way to make it aware of subnet slash notation, so much
> > the
> > better.  I'm a bit at a loss as to why there's no IPv4 number format with
> > how
> > often spreadsheets are the source of truth in some rather large service
> > providers.
> >
> > Again, not looking for non-spreadsheet solutions to this, and ideally a
> > web
> > interface spreadsheet would be best for sharing.  We don't need a real
> > database if it's on the web :-)
> >
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