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This is the README for Net::IPv6Addr version 0.94.

Net::IPv6Addr is a "module" for the Perl computer programming language, a
library of computer code to install on a computer.  This document contains
four sections:

1. About - what the module does

2. Documentation - how to learn more about the module

3. Installation - how to install this module on a computer

4. Help - what to do if you get stuck

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1. ABOUT

Net::IPv6Addr - Check validity of IPv6 addresses

"Net::IPv6Addr" checks strings for valid IPv6 addresses, as specified
in "RFC1884", and converts addresses into various formats. It
is able to process addresses formatted in the following styles;

preferred form: x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x

zero-compressed form: the infamous double-colon.  

Too many pattern matches to describe in this margin.

mixed IPv4/IPv6 format: x:x:x:x:x:x:d.d.d.d

mixed IPv4/IPv6 with compression: ::d.d.d.d or ::FFFF:d.d.d.d

base-85-encoded: [0-9A-Za-z!#$%&()*+;<=>?@^_`{|}~-]{20}

(This encoding was given in "RFC1924" as an April Fool's joke.)

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2. DOCUMENTATION

You can read the documentation for the module online at the following
website:

    * http://metacpan.org/release/Net-IPv6Addr

(This link goes to the latest version of the module.)

After installing the module, you can read the documentation on your
computer using

    perldoc Net::IPv6Addr

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3. INSTALLATION

This module requires Perl version 5.6.0 or later.

To install the module from CPAN, use

    cpan Net::IPv6Addr

If you have the App::cpanminus installer, you may prefer

    cpanm Net::IPv6Addr

To install the module from the source file, Net-IPv6Addr-0.94.tar.gz,
follow this sequence of commands:

    tar xfz Net-IPv6Addr-0.94.tar.gz
    cd Net-IPv6Addr-0.94
    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make install

If you want to test the module before installing it, use "make test" after
"make" and before "make install".

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4. HELP

To get help with the module, you can email the author, Ben Bullock, at
<bkb@cpan.org>. If you think there is a problem in the module, you can
report a bug at 

<https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-IPv6Addr>,

or if you want to alter the source code of Net::IPv6Addr, try the public
repository on github at 

<https://github.com/benkasminbullock/net-ipv6addr>. 

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This README was written on Sat Oct  6 08:21:08 2018.

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