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+/**
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 the original author or authors.
+ * See the notice.md file distributed with this work for additional
+ * information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.beust.jcommander.converters;
+
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.UnknownHostException;
+
+import com.beust.jcommander.IStringConverter;
+
+/**
+ * Converts {@code String}s to {@code InetAddress}'.
+ */
+public class InetAddressConverter implements IStringConverter<InetAddress> {
+
+    @Override
+    public InetAddress convert(String host) {
+        try {
+            return InetAddress.getByName(host);
+        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(host, e);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
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