topic Re: IP address to country & City mapping in App Development

IP address to country & City mapping

poojashribanger — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:03:13 GMT

Hi All,

I have a table that contains IP addresses and currencies, but I need to determine the country.

Is it possible to map the country using the IP address and currency?

Any Help will be appreciated!

Thanks in Advance!

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Re: IP address to country & City mapping

Or — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:31:53 GMT

If you Google it up, you'll find plenty of options for getting locations from an IP address. Pick one you like and use that.

Re: IP address to country & City mapping

poojashribanger — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:29:57 GMT

For IPv4 it's working fine but for IPv6 i am unable to convert to number.

If someone can help me in converting this ipv6 code to number in qlik.

Please see below.
Mapping File range :

My data:

Thanks in Advance

Re: IP address to country & City mapping

poojashribanger — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:20:11 GMT

Is there any solution for this?
I am still unable to find solution to convert IPv6 to number in qlik

Re: IP address to country & City mapping

lennart_mo — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:31:00 GMT

Hi @poojashribanger,

you can convert numbers from hex to decimal by using following command:

num(num#(NewIPAddress, '(hex)'))

I'm not sure how the ranges from your Mapping Range were created but you'll need to transform each 4 digits. Since you seem to always have the first 4 blocks of the IP, I would suggest something like so:

num(num#(SubField(NewIPAddress, ':',1), '(hex)')*pow(16, 12)) +num(num#(SubField(NewIPAddress, ':',1), '(hex)')*pow(16, 8)) +num(num#(SubField(NewIPAddress, ':',2), '(hex)')*pow(16, 4)) +num(num#(SubField(NewIPAddress, ':',3), '(hex)')*pow(16, 0)) as NewIPAddress

Re: IP address to country & City mapping

poojashribanger — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:59:59 GMT

Hi @lennart_mo ,

Thanks a lot for suggesting the solution!

I've implemented the IPv6-to-numeric conversion in SQL as below. While Qlik doesn’t support the full precision of the numeric result (it displays the value in exponential format), when I cast it as text, the output appears correctly.

Here’s the core of my SQL logic:

select *,
cast(IPNumtest as char) as test
from ( SELECT *,
CASE

WHEN ip_type = 'IPv4' THEN INET_ATON(NewIPAddress)
ELSE
CAST(
CONV(SUBSTRING(HEX(INET6_ATON(FullIPv6)), 1, 16), 16, 10) AS DECIMAL(39, 0)
) * POW(2, 64) +
CAST(
CONV(SUBSTRING(HEX(INET6_ATON(FullIPv6)), 17, 16), 16, 10) AS DECIMAL(39, 0)
)
END AS IpNumeric,
(CAST(CONV(SUBSTR(HEX(INET6_ATON(FullIPv6)), 1, 16), 16, 10) AS DECIMAL(39,0))
* 18446744073709551616)
+ CAST(CONV(SUBSTR(HEX(INET6_ATON(FullIPv6)), 17, 16), 16, 10) AS DECIMAL(39,0)) as IPNumtest
FROM (
SELECT *,
-- Create FullIPv6 (8 blocks of 4 digits)
CONCAT(
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 1), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 2), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 3), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 4), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 5), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 6), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 7), ':', -1), 4, '0'), ':',
LPAD(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(NewIPv6_Patched, ':', 8), ':', -1), 4, '0')
) AS FullIPv6
FROM (
SELECT *,
CASE WHEN LEFT(IPaddress, 1) = ',' THEN SUBSTRING(IPaddress, 2) ELSE IPaddress END AS NewIP,
TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)) AS NewIPAddress,
CASE WHEN INSTR(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)), ':') > 0 THEN 'IPv6' ELSE 'IPv4' END AS ip_type,
CASE
WHEN INSTR(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)), ':') = 0
THEN TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1))
END AS IpAddress_ipv4,
CASE
WHEN (LENGTH(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1))) -
LENGTH(REPLACE(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)), ':', ''))) < 7
THEN CONCAT(
TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)),
REPEAT(':0', 8 - (LENGTH(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1))) -
LENGTH(REPLACE(TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1)), ':', '')))
))
ELSE TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(IPaddress, ',', 1))
END AS NewIPv6_Patched
FROM daily_player
) a
) b where ip_type='IPv6' and `date` ='2025-01-01'
and NewIPAddress = '2001:268:7394:5b'
) c order by IPNumtest desc;

Additionally, I’ve downloaded an IPv6-to-country mapping file and am using IntervalMatch() in Qlik to associate these numeric IPs to countries.

Thanks & Regards,
Poojashri