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Help With Sorting - Multiple Decimal Points

bgagliardi1
Path Finder

Hi,

I'm dealing with decimal points trying to determine the latest version of some software, but it's botching the integers after the first decimal point.

SoftwareVersion
5.0.1450.509
5.0.1450.8 <----Example
4.2.1330.31

I've tried stats list(field) and it still didn't provide the searching I was looking for. Thoughts? Please don't suggest an eval field separation per decimal 😉

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acharlieh
Influencer

Assuming all of your version strings are the same number of components long, I would try the sort command, specifically telling it to sort the field as an IP address:

| sort ip(SoftwareVersion)

It seems to work well so long as all the versions are the same length:

| makeresults | eval versions=split("5.0.13.1,5.0.1450.509,4.2.1330.31,5.0.1450.510,5.0.1449.508,5.0.15.4",",") | mvexpand versions | sort ip(versions)

But it seems to get tripped up when the version strings are varying numbers of components long:

| makeresults | eval versions=split("5.0.13.1,5.0.1450.509.1,4.2.1330.31,5.0.1450.510,5.0.1449.508,5.0.15",",") | mvexpand versions | sort ip(versions)

I would then also file a P4 enhancement request asking for an additional sort option (possibly one based on semantic versioning).

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acharlieh
Influencer

Assuming all of your version strings are the same number of components long, I would try the sort command, specifically telling it to sort the field as an IP address:

| sort ip(SoftwareVersion)

It seems to work well so long as all the versions are the same length:

| makeresults | eval versions=split("5.0.13.1,5.0.1450.509,4.2.1330.31,5.0.1450.510,5.0.1449.508,5.0.15.4",",") | mvexpand versions | sort ip(versions)

But it seems to get tripped up when the version strings are varying numbers of components long:

| makeresults | eval versions=split("5.0.13.1,5.0.1450.509.1,4.2.1330.31,5.0.1450.510,5.0.1449.508,5.0.15",",") | mvexpand versions | sort ip(versions)

I would then also file a P4 enhancement request asking for an additional sort option (possibly one based on semantic versioning).

bgagliardi1
Path Finder

Thanks, I'll submit the P4 enhancement. Fortunately, I realized that the delineation between numbering orders was operating system based, OSX/Windows clients. I was able to do the sort correctly by running two searches specific to the OS', and then sorting that way.

I can confirm it was lexicographical ordering vs semantic versioning.

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