DESCRIPTION This module provides several convenient functions related to version numbers, e.g. for comparing them. FUNCTIONS cmp_version($v1, $v2) => -1|0|1 Equivalent to: version->parse($v1) <=> version->parse($v2) version_eq($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_ne($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_lt($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_le($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_gt($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_ge($v1, $v2) => BOOL version_between($v, $v1, $v2[, $v1b, $v2b, ...]) => BOOL version_in($v, $v1[, $v2, ...]) => BOOL add_version($v, $increment) => $new_v Add $increment to version $v. Both increment and version must match: /\Av?\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){0,2}\z/ so trial/dev releases like v1.2.3_1 are not currently supported. Some examples: 0.1 + 0.1 -> 0.2 0.01 + 0.001 -> 0.011 0.01 + 0.1 -> 0.11 0.9 + 0.1 -> 1.0 0.99 + 0.1 -> 1.09 1.1.0 + 0.0.1 -> 1.1.1 subtract_version($v, $decrement) => $new_v Subtract $decrement from version $v. This is the reverse operation for add_version. Will die if the result is negative. SEE ALSO version