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Lexicographic comparison of version strings?

waisbrot
Engager

I have version strings in my log output, and I'd like to filter on these, like

| where version < 2.3.5

But Splunk only wants to do numeric comparison with '<'. Is there an operator to perform lexicographic comparisons?

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okrabbe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am not aware of a function or command to do this.

However, you could use a more complicated where clause if we assume you have broken out the version into fields major, minor and point....

|where major > 2 OR (major >=2 AND minor >3) OR (major >=2 AND minor >= 2 AND point > 5)

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okrabbe_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I am not aware of a function or command to do this.

However, you could use a more complicated where clause if we assume you have broken out the version into fields major, minor and point....

|where major > 2 OR (major >=2 AND minor >3) OR (major >=2 AND minor >= 2 AND point > 5)
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