Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Determine address type of string

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From: Jo <wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 10:14:19 +0100
Hello,

I am writing a custom dissector as a plugin. There I need to determine
the address type of a string in a TLV. It can be either an IPv4
address, IPv6 address or a FQDN.

What is the best way to parse this string into the Wireshark data types?

My idea was to check which delimieters occur ("." -> IPv4, ":" ->
IPv6) iand if there dots, to check whether the parts between the dots
are numerical.

Bye,
Jo