How to check if a IP (ipv4) address is valid in pure Bash

Here is a small bash function to check if a IP is valid (4 octets, each octet < 256). I find it somewhat elegant since instead of using a lot of case/if/then constructs or a crazy long regex it splits the IP into each octet (and stores them in an array, and then uses a combination of regex and bit shifting to check each octet.

The function will return 0 if the IP is valid, and 1 or higher if it encountered an error (you can check with the $? variable directly after calling the function)
Example: