Trying to extract all IP addresses from a file using Python

noob here.

I’m trying to extract all IP addresses from a file where the IP addresses are all in random positions, with there sometimes being more than one IP on a line. It’s a text file with the contents looking like the below:

hello9.9.9.9                     hdi3ohdoi3hoi3oid2         10.3.2.3            2.3.4.5
ddjeijfdeio
eifhoehjwiehfiowe
uiewhduihewiudhue
8.8.8.8, 20.20.20.20
de2hd9j39ud9829d8 192.168.10.24

My code only returns the first ip address on each line,

['9.9.9.9', '8.8.8.8', '192.168.10.24']

My code is below:

with open('C:/testfile.txt') as fh:
    file = fh.readlines()

pattern = re.compile(r'(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})')

lst = []

for line in file:
    match = pattern.search(line)
    if match is not None:
        lst.append(match[0])

print(lst)

Any ideas how I can list all the IP’s?

Thanks in advance

J

>Solution :

You can use re.findall for that:

import re

data = """
hello9.9.9.9                     hdi3ohdoi3hoi3oid2         10.3.2.3            2.3.4.5
ddjeijfdeio
eifhoehjwiehfiowe
uiewhduihewiudhue
8.8.8.8, 20.20.20.20
de2hd9j39ud9829d8 192.168.10.24
"""

result = re.findall(r'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}', data)
print(result)

Result:

['9.9.9.9', '10.3.2.3', '2.3.4.5', '8.8.8.8', '20.20.20.20', '192.168.10.24']