Infoblox API - limit scope of search?

[#1]

Hello,

I'm trying to query a large class B network for fixed address records. For example, network 120.18.0.0/16  but I want to limit the search to a single subnet, like subnet 2. How do I do this with the search API? This is what I have:

my @retrieved_objs = $session->search(
                        object => "Infoblox:HCP::FixedAddr",
                        network => '120.18.2.0/24',
                        network_view => "default",
                        return_methods => ['name','ipv4addr','mac']
                        );

unless (@retrieved_objs) {
                          die("Search records failed: ",
                          $session->status_code() . ":" . $session->status_detail());
                        }

my $count = 0;
foreach $entry (@retrieved_objs)
        {
        $this_ip   = $entry->ipv4addr();
        $this_name = $entry->name();
        $this_ip   = $entry->ipv4addr();
        $this_mac  = $entry->mac();

        print "$this_name | $this_mac | $this_ip  \n";

        }

This matches anything with 120.18.2  in it, so I get subnet 2, subnet 20, subnet 200 etc

How do I just get  120.18.2.0/24  ?

Thanks

[#2]

Hi,

I've noticed that the difference between the get and search methods is that search uses regex and get doesn't.

The dots in '120.18.2.0/24' are treated as wildcards. use \. to escape the dots.

Because of its use of regex you can also leave out the final 0 in the network address.

[#3]

Thanks Stef ! I had not realised it was a regex. That makes sense now.

Much appreciated.