On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote:

I remember reading somewhere* that perl version numbers are strings and
that lexical comparison should be used.

Digging deeper into my memory, I seem to recall running into the "<"
issue when I was implementing a Module::Install extension. There's a
module that can get the latest version information for modules from
CPAN... That might have been the culprit.

Also, the "version" module might be useful here.

David

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This time, let's elect a representative instead of a leader.

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