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Compare Version Numbers

Understand how to compare version strings by breaking them into revisions and using two pointers to evaluate their integer values. Learn to handle leading zeros and unequal lengths to determine if one version is greater, lesser, or equal to another.

Statement

Given two version strings, version1 and version2, compare them. A version string is composed of revisions separated by dots ('.'). Each revision’s value is determined by converting it to an integer, disregarding any leading zeros.

Compare the two version strings by evaluating their revision values from left to right. If one version string contains fewer revisions than the other, treat each missing revision as 0.

Return the result of the comparison as follows:

  • Return 1-1 ...