Zonema...dation(3pm)

💖 Zonemaster::Engine::Validation — validation functions for other Zonemaster modules ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to Zonema...dation(3pm) — yes that's the page name, it's the 3pm section of the perl manual, living under User Contributed Perl Documentation. slay. it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "little module, big responsibilities" 💅

this one is literally just a little helper module that hands out validation functions to all the other Zonemaster modules so they don't have to reinvent the wheel. team players only 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Zonemaster::Engine::Validation qw( validate_ipv4 validate_ipv6 );
my $ip_is_valid = validate_ipv4( $ip_address );

see how easy that is?? you pull in the functions you want with qw(...), call one, and boom — you got a boolean. no cap. 🎀

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👑 EXPORTED FUNCTIONS 👑

these are the two icons you can import. nothing else comes along for the ride unless you ask for it.

⭐ validate_ipv4

my $ip_is_valid = validate_ipv4( $ip_address );

this one checks if the IP address you handed it is a valid IPv4 address. that's it, that's the job. 💖

• Takes a string (an IP address).
• Returns a boolean.

so like, you give it a string, it gives you back a truthy/falsy answer about whether that string is a legit IPv4 address. simple. iconic. ✨

🦋 validate_ipv6

my $ip_is_valid = validate_ipv6( $ip_address );

the sibling!! same energy, different protocol. this one checks if the given IP address is a valid IPv6 address. 🌈

• Takes a string (an IP address).
• Returns a boolean.

same deal: string goes in, boolean comes out, and that boolean is entirely about IPv6 validity. periodt. 💅

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ngl bestie, that's the whole page — two functions, both taking a string and both returning a boolean. short queen behavior 👑

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later babes 💜 this page came to you from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-03-21 — go validate something and make it cute 🎀✨