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IPv6 Address

Standard IPv6 address format with 8 16-bit hex groups separated by colons. May use :: notation for zero compression. Resolves to VARCHAR.

IPv6 Address

technology.internet.ip_v6

Standard IPv6 address format with 8 16-bit hex groups separated by colons. May use :: notation for zero compression. Resolves to VARCHAR.

Domain
technology
Category
internet
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334" --mode column
→ technology.internet.ip_v6

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT ft_infer('2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334');
-- → 'technology.internet.ip_v6'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(ft_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE ft_infer(my_column) = 'technology.internet.ip_v6';

JSON Schema

finetype taxonomy technology.internet.ip_v6 -o json-schema
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/technology.internet.ip_v6",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Standard IPv6 address format with 8 16-bit hex groups separated by colons. May use :: notation for zero compression. Resolves to VARCHAR.",
  "examples": [
    "2001: 0db8: 85a3: 0000: 0000: 8a2e: 0370: 7334",
    "2001:db8: 85a3:: 8a2e: 370: 7334",
    ":: 1",
    "fe80:: 1"
  ],
  "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}:){7}[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4}$",
  "title": "IPv6 Address",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-label": "technology.internet.ip_v6",
  "x-finetype-pii": false
}

Examples

2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:73342001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334::1fe80::1

Aliases

ipv6

Type Registry