#!/usr/bin/perl

$address = "172.34.12.0";
$address2 = "255.255.255.0";

@octets = split (/\./,$address);
@octets2 = split (/\./,$address2);

#Funky results when doing a bitwise AND
#This outputs "050 24 00 0" What's going on here?
print int($octets[0]) & int($octets2[0]), "\n";
print int($octets[1]) & int($octets2[1]), "\n";
print int($octets[2]) & int($octets2[2]), "\n";
print int($octets[3]) & int($octets2[3]), "\n";

#Results are what I want when doing it as literals
#This outputs "172 34 12 0"
print 172 & 255, "\n";
print 34 & 255, "\n";
print 12 & 255, "\n";
print 0 & 0, "\n";

172
34
12
0
172
34
12
0