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Compare-SemVerVersion

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NAME Compare-SemVerVersion



SYNOPSIS

Compares two versions and find whether they're equal, or one is newer than the other.





SYNTAX

Compare-SemVerVersion [-ReferenceVersion] <String> [[-DifferenceVersion] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

The Compare-SemVerVersion allows the comparison of SemVer 2.0 versions (including prerelease identifiers)

as documented on semver.org

The result will be = if the versions are equivalent, > if the reference version takes precedence, or < if the

difference version wins.





PARAMETERS

-ReferenceVersion <String>

The string version you would like to test.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



-DifferenceVersion <String>

The other string version you would like to compare agains the reference.



Required? false

Position? 2

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS

System.String





NOTES





Worth noting that the documentaion of SemVer versions should follow this logic (from semver.org)

1.0.0-alpha < 1.0.0-alpha.1 < 1.0.0-alpha.beta < 1.0.0-beta < 1.0.0-beta.2 < 1.0.0-beta.11 < 1.0.0-rc.1 <

1.0.0.



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Compare-SemVerVersion -ReferenceVersion '0.2.3.546-alpha.201+01012018' -DifferenceVersion

'0.2.3.546-alpha.200'



# >

Compare-SemVerVersion -ReferenceVersion '0.2.3.546-alpha.201+01012018' -DifferenceVersion '0.2.3.546-alpha.202'

# <









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Compare-SemVerVersion -ReferenceVersion '0.2.3.546-alpha.201+01012018' -DifferenceVersion

'0.2.3.546-alpha.201+01012015'



# =











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