| Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-04-05.

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Protocols.IPv6

# Method Protocols.IPv6.format_addr_short()

Method format_addr_short

  `string format_addr_short(array(int(0..65535)) bin_addr)`

Description

  Formats an IPv6 address to the colon-separated hexadecimal form as defined in RFC 2373, section 2.2. bin_addr must be an 8-element array containing the 16-bit fields.

  The returned address is on a canonical shortest form as follows: The longest sequence of zeroes is shortened using `"::"`. If there are several of equal length then the leftmost is shortened. All hexadecimal letters are lower-case. There are no superfluous leading zeroes in the fields.

See also

  parse_addr