Issues with quotes in strings

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I am working on a PowerShell GUI. For one of the fields I want to lock it down to only numbers and periods, for IP address input. After several attempts at regex I ended up cobbling this together:

    $IPInput = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
        $IPInput.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(445, 60)
        $IPInput.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(170, 20)
        $IPInput.TextAlign = 'Center'
        $IPInput.MaxLength = 15
        $IPInput.add_TextChanged({
            if($IPInput.Text -match '[A-Z!@#$%^&*();;_=+<,>?/|\`"`~{[}}-]') {
                $IPInput.Text = $IPInput.Text -replace '[A-Z!@#$%^&*();;_=+<,>?/|\`"`~{[}}-]'
                    if($IPInput.Text.Length -gt 0) {
                        $IPInput.Focus()
                        $IPInput.SelectionStart = $IPInput.Text.Length
                    }
            }
        })

This works for every character except a single quote ('). I have tried putting a ` before the quote. Changing the enclosing quotes to “” and then adding the single quote character, and about every other permutation I could think of. Can anyone suggest the best method for including the single quote, or an easy way to exclude anything and everything except numbers and periods?

2

There should be a ton of examples of a regex for IP addresses, but what you are using is not at first glance, because nothing is ensuring that you are entering a valid octet (e.g.255). Take a look at this post which uses this regex:

^((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)$
3

How about,

$IPAddress = '192.168.1.1'
[System.Net.IPAddress]::TryParse($IPAddress,[ref]'1.1.1.1')

You just need to makes sure $IPAddress.Split(‘.’).count -eq 4