Version::Compare - Compare version strings

Author

       Dominik Schulz <dominik.schulz@gauner.org>

Bugs

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-version-compare at rt.cpan.org", or through the web
       interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Version-Compare>.  I will be notified, and
       then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Copyright And License

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Dominik Schulz.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-11-19                              Version::Compare(3pm)

License And Copyright

       Copyright 2012 Dominik Schulz

       This  program  is  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

Name

       Version::Compare - Comparing version strings

Subroutines/Methods

max
       Return the bigger of the two numerical values

   version_compare
       Compare two unix-style version strings like 2.6.23.1 and 2.6.33 and return and sort-like return code (1
       => LHS bigger, 0 => equal, -1 => RHS bigger)

       0.0 < 0.5 < 0.10 < 0.99 < 1 < 1.0~rc1 < 1.0 < 1.0+b1 < 1.0+nmu1 < 1.1 < 2.0

   cmp
       See version_compare.

Support

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

           perldoc Version::Compare

       You can also look for information at:

       •   RT: CPAN's request tracker

           <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Version-Compare>

       •   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

           <http://annocpan.org/dist/Version-Compare>

       •   CPAN Ratings

           <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Version-Compare>

       •   Search CPAN

           <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Version-Compare/>

Synopsis

           use Version::Compare;

           if(&Version::Compare::version_compare('2.6.26','2.6.0') == 1) {
               print "2.6.26 is greater than 2.6.0\n";
           }