If you’re looking to splice an IP address from a document and there is a 100% chance that the IP address is properly formatted then why the F**k would you want a regex like this:"^(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5]).){3}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])quot;In the worst case the regex might look like:"^([0-9]{1,3}).([0-9]{1,3}).([0-9]{1,3}).([0-9]{1,3})$"But even this is abusive.