On Feb 18, 2008 10:42 AM, Guy Hulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember reading somewhere* that perl version numbers are strings and > that lexical comparison should be used.
There are so many peculiar issues with version number comparison in Perl modules that I would strongly encourage people not to rely on any simple comparison. Instead, I would recommend that people use CPAN::Version, which is available in recent versions of CPAN. On the general topic of how to represent version numbers, I refer people to this thread on Perl Monks: http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=417576 Regards, David
