The problem is in line 42 of your code.

(Or phrased differently, if you showed your code, it would be much easier to help you).

Update:

Running your code with 

use strict;
use warnings;

# your code here...

print rev_compare('1.3', '*');

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Results in an error: 

Too many arguments for main::rev_compare at foo.pl line 54, near "'*')
+"
Execution of foo.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Removing the () after the sub rev_compare fixes this. Then I get 

Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at foo.pl line 39.
0

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Line 39 is     if ($section_major_number == $main_minor_number)

Which reveals a problem of your code: you don't have sane handling for when the numbers don't contain a dot. Also you only check the first argument for being an asterisk, not the second.

I'd suggest this code instead: 

sub rev_compare
{
    my $section = shift;
    my $main = shift;

    return 1 if $section eq '*' or $main eq '*';

    my @section = split /\./, $section;
    my @main    = split /\./, $main;

    return  ($section[0] == $main[0])
            && (($section[1] eq '*' && $main[1] eq '*')
                || $section[1] == $main[1]);
}

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I haven't tested it with all values, but it should handle * as the value of the minor version number just fine

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In reply to Re: Comparing revision numbers by moritz
in thread Comparing revision numbers by zek152

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