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CodingMediumcod-g158
Subject String parsingLevel Mid–Senior~25 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development, Telecom

Question

Given a string query, classify it as a valid "IPv4" address, a valid "IPv6" address, or "Neither". An IPv4 address is four dot-separated decimal groups, each 0-255 with no leading zeros (so "192.168.01.1" is invalid). An IPv6 address is eight colon-separated groups, each 1 to 4 hexadecimal digits (case-insensitive); do not support :: compression. Return one of the exact strings "IPv4", "IPv6", or "Neither".

Implement
validate_ip(query: str) → str
Examples
in["172.16.254.1"]out"IPv4"
What a strong answer looks like

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