in reply to Need version regex

Like others, I find the wording of your question quite confusing.

However, I did recall a similar sounding question from some time ago. You might find my answer or one of the other approaches in the thread of use to you.


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Re^2: Need version regex
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2004 at 21:28 UTC
    The problem is doing this with regexes (not the expanding but the comparision) and I dont like arbitrary limits. For instance 5 is way too low for wine (the programs version numbers I mean)