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+/*Given a valid (IPv4) IP address, return a defanged version of that IP address.
+A defanged IP address replaces every period "." with "[.]".*/
+
+/* Input: address = "1.1.1.1"
+   Output: "1[.]1[.]1[.]1"*/
+   
+#include<bits/stdc++.h>
+class Solution {
+public:
+     string defangIPaddr(string address) {
+        string op;
+//A for loop which will execute till the address[i] which means the string runs till the last character of the string is Null 
+      for(int i=0;address[i]!='\0';i++)  
+      {
+           //if address[i]== '.' which means that if the in a string contains a period we'll replace it with [.]
+          if(address[i]=='.')
+          {
+              //This line adds the square brackets if there's a period in a string
+              op=op+'['+ address[i]+']';
+              i++;
+        
+          }
+          op=op+address[i];
+              
+      }
+        return op;
+     }
+};