Kind of like Data Validation

[Todd Bardoni]

What I'm looking to do is this:
I want to limit a column to only accept IP Addresses. So, for example, I want the column to only accept data between:

1.1.1.1 and 999.999.999.999

I can't do this with Data Validation (as far as I know). Anybody have any ideas?

 

[IML]

I don't know IP address but a custom validation of
=AND((LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")))=2,ISNUMBER(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0))

for cell A1 will ensure you only numbers and two decimal places. Of course, validation doesn't work for items pasted in, and it this would seem to something people would want to paste in.

 

[Todd Bardoni]

Hmmm...I can't get this to work at all. thanks, though.

 

[Todd Bardoni]

Any other ideas?

 

[Todd Bardoni]

Actually this will work if I could get one more decimal point in there instead of three that it will allow me. Any help?

 

[Todd Bardoni]

The above formula only allows for two decimals...I need three...Can anyone help? I hate to keep asking, but I'm so close yet so far.....

 

[IML]

=AND((LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")))=3,ISNUMBER(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0))

will allow for only 3 decimals.

As I said, this isn't perfect, it allows for things such as
99.99..999

It would,however, be easy to limit this to list a valid IPs, if such a list exists for your purposes.

 

[geogherkins]

=AND((LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")))=3,ISNUMBER(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")+0))

Thank you for this forumula. It was just what I was looking for to help contain typographical errors in a spreadsheet being used by non-technical data entry!