Compare version strings in groovy

Question

Hey I have created a Groovy script that will extract the version numbers of some folder. I would then like to compare the version numbers and select the highest.

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Answer 1

String maxVersion(versions) {
    versions.max { a, b ->
        List verA = a.tokenize('.')
        List verB = b.tokenize('.')
        def commonIndices = Math.min(verA.size(), verB.size())
        for (int i = 0; i < commonIndices; ++i) {
            def numA = verA[i].toInteger()
            def numB = verB[i].toInteger()
            if (numA != numB) {
                return numA <=> numB
            }
        }
        verA.size() <=> verB.size()
    }
}