getting characters out of a string

Hi,

I am trying to compare a users IP address to the servers IP address, but I only want to compare the 1st 7 characters of the users IP address.

I wrote this to print out 2 strings:

<%

String userIP = request.getRemoteAddr();

char[] check = new char[7];

userIP.getBytes( 0, 6, check, 0);

String s = check.toString();

out.write ( "your ip is = " + userIP + "<br><br>" );

out.write ( "first 7 char are = " + s + "<br><br>" );

%>

"String userIP" shows the users IP address (ie 123.456.789.123) and "String s" should show the 1st 7 characters of the users IP (ie 123.456), but its not printing that, its showing something else...what i am lacking?

Thank,

Brent

[773 byte] By [brentgarner] at [2007-9-27 22:26:08]