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MAC Address

Media Access Control (MAC) address in standard colon-separated hex format (e.g., 00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e). Also accepts hyphen-separated format.

MAC Address

technology.internet.mac_address

Media Access Control (MAC) address in standard colon-separated hex format (e.g., 00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e). Also accepts hyphen-separated format.

Domain
technology
Category
internet
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e" --mode column
→ technology.internet.mac_address

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT ft_infer('00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e');
-- → 'technology.internet.mac_address'
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.mac_address';

JSON Schema

finetype taxonomy technology.internet.mac_address -o json-schema
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/technology.internet.mac_address",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Media Access Control (MAC) address in standard colon-separated hex format (e.g., 00: 1a: 2b: 3c: 4d: 5e). Also accepts hyphen-separated format.",
  "examples": [
    "00: 1a: 2b: 3c: 4d: 5e",
    "08-00-27-00-00-00",
    "a0:b1:c2:d3:e4:f5"
  ],
  "pattern": "^([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})$",
  "title": "MAC Address",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-label": "technology.internet.mac_address",
  "x-finetype-pii": false
}

Examples

00:1a:2b:3c:4d:5e08-00-27-00-00-00a0:b1:c2:d3:e4:f5

Aliases

mac

Type Registry