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 _____________________________________________________________________ David Coppit [EMAIL PROTECTED] The College of William and Mary http://coppit.org/ This time, let's elect a representative instead of a leader.