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I'm reading into a variable a value that is 10.4.2.19943.2 from the add/remove programs and this is a data type of String. I want to change this to a numerical value so that I can perform a Less Than comparison to determine if a piece of software needs to be installed or skipped.
How can I convert this variable from string to a numerical data string?
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What sort of decimal number has multiple decimal points?????
The closest I can think of is a version number -- but your example is too long. Version numbers can have up to four parts (major, minor, build, and version). Your string has five parts.
To convert a four-part version to a version object is easy enough:
[version]"10.4.2.19943"
thank you that was what I was looking for.