I can't believe I'm the first to say this, but why not use a module?

http://search.cpan.org/~edavis/Sort-Versions-1.5/Versions.pm would seem to be the thing.

You'd just use its versioncmp() function in the sorting.

I'm not sure what its answer is to Abigail's question "is version 4.2 older or newer than version 4.10?" because I'm not in a position to test right now.

Update: Not an answer to the actual question, I now realise, but to the "I'm going to have to get creative later" part.


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Finding the latest available version of a program by Cody Pendant
in thread Finding the latest available version of a program by tektsu

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