ipv6Pack() function

Compresses an IPv6 address: drops leading zeros from each group and collapses the longest run of zero groups to ::.

Signature:

export declare function ipv6Pack(ip: string): string;

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
ip	string	a full or partly compressed IPv6 address

Returns:

string

The compressed form, e.g. 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 becomes 2001:db8::1.

Remarks

The inverse of ipv6Unpack(), and what this package emits when producing IPv6 text. It is a string transformation with no validation, so a malformed input produces malformed output rather than an error.

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