From 7912f8465bbd1cf47d0706ce1d881ca6a50a3665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 15:10:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add the rules

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@129732 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml b/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml
index 6e15dfac7b..54eb1f113d 100644
--- a/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml
+++ b/reference/info/functions/version-compare.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/info.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.version-compare">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@
      version is lower than the second, 0 if they are equal, and +1 if
      the second is lower.
     </para>
+    <para>
+     The function first replaces <literal>_</literal>, <literal>-</literal>
+     and <literal>+</literal> with a dot <literal>.</literal> in the version 
+     strings and also inserts dots <literal>.</literal> before and after any 
+     non number so that for example '4.3.2RC1' becomes '4.3.2.RC.1'. Then it 
+     splits the results like if you were using explode('.',$ver). The it 
+     compares the parts startinig from left to right. If a part contains 
+     special version strings these are handled in the following order: 
+     <literal>dev</literal> &lt; <literal>alpha</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>a</literal> &lt; <literal>beta</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>b</literal> &lt; <literal>RC</literal> &lt; 
+     <literal>pl</literal>.
+    </para>
     <para>
      If you specify the third optional <parameter>operator</parameter>
      argument, you can test for a particular relationship. The