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;	[I"GIn the former case, the following are the valid formats that will ;TI"Gbe recognized: "address", "address/prefixlen" and "address/mask", ;TI"Dwhere IPv6 address may be enclosed in square brackets (`[' and ;TI"G`]').  If a prefixlen or a mask is specified, it returns a masked ;TI"<IP address.  Although the address family is determined ;TI"@automatically from a specified string, you can specify one ;TI"0explicitly by the optional second argument.;T@o;
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