parseVersion

Reads a version such as 2.10.3-beta.2 into major, minor, patch, pre and build.

Details #

parseVersion(text) returns a record: major, minor and patch as numbers, pre (the part after -, such as beta.2) and build (the part after +) as text. A missing minor or patch is 0, and a leading v is allowed.

Parameters #

Takes 1 argument. {{ parseVersion(text) }}

Examples #

parseVersion("2.10.3-beta.2").pre

→ beta.2

parseVersion("v1.4")

→

{
  "build" : "",
  "major" : 1,
  "minor" : 4,
  "patch" : 0,
  "pre" : ""
}

Gotchas #

Text that is not a version fails with parseVersion() couldn't read a version.