[PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/info/functions version-compare.xml

[Marcus Boerger]

helly           Sun Jun  1 11:10:09 2003 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions version-compare.xml 
  Log:
  Add the rules
  
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml:1.2 
phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml:1.3
--- phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml:1.2  Wed Apr 17 02:39:30 
2002
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml      Sun Jun  1 11:10:09 
2003
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/info.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.version-compare">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -28,6 +28,19 @@
      <function>version_compare</function> returns -1 if the first
      version is lower than the second, 0 if they are equal, and +1 if
      the second is lower.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     The function first replaces <literal>_</literal>, <literal>-</literal>
+     and <literal>+</literal> with a dot <literal>.</literal> in the version 
+     strings and also inserts dots <literal>.</literal> before and after any 
+     non number so that for example '4.3.2RC1' becomes '4.3.2.RC.1'. Then it 
+     splits the results like if you were using explode('.',$ver). The it 
+     compares the parts startinig from left to right. If a part contains 
+     special version strings these are handled in the following order: 
+     <literal>dev</literal> &lt; <literal>alpha</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>a</literal> &lt; <literal>beta</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>b</literal> &lt; <literal>RC</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>pl</literal>.
     </para>
     <para>
      If you specify the third optional <parameter>operator</parameter>



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