Regex expression

[Melba23]

mikell,

Stop inventing your own edge cases - the OP thinks up quite enough on his own!

M23

[mikell]

You're absolutely right 

It's the reason why I chose the expression I used, which matches just one or more numbers followed by a dot - I can't imagine a simplest definition of a version number

[jchd]

And once again, starting from a vague specification, kind people (I do love you all) rivalize cleverness to cope with possible future untold sophistications of the initial requirements.

The fault is obviously to the OP by not telling explicitely about all the gory details head first. That expands to so-called "professional development" as well, where too often difficult-to-handle corner cases are exhibited once the bulk of the job is done.

[SadBunny]

@jchd Exactly. Have you ever been that tech/dev consultant in a room with your dev manager, an account manager and a customer, and hear them tell the customer "no worries, we'll just build some api's and let ours talk to yours" (like it's a magic formula)? And then before you're even done formulating in your head the sentence "what about possible edge cases, performance issues, code page issues, privacy/security issues, testing/QA issues and backup issues" hear them say that it can probably be done in a week or two, "maybe three allowing for unforeseen circumstances"? Then you end up not saying anything during the meeting, because your boss knows better than to actually ASK you something in front of the customer? ​Customer leaves happy, account manager gets bonus for landing deal, and you have that awkward discussion about details with the dev boss that you had before so often... 

[kylomas]

"Once upon a time..."

Should be opening statement in all RFP's and sales meetings.

Edited May 27, 2015 by kylomas

[jguinch]

Antoher regex way (in one shot) :

#include <Array.au3>

$sText = "Geek - Smarter Shopping 1.1.5" & @CRLF & _
    "Soccer Stars 1.4.3" & @CRLF & _
    "Rock Hero 1.1.3" & @CRLF & _
    "Tra la la" & @CRLF & _
    "Tra la la 2" & @CRLF & _
    "Pinterest 4.6.1" & @CRLF & _
    "Winter Craft 3: Mine Build 1.1.5" & @CRLF & _
    "Flick Shoot 2 1.25" & @CRLF & _
    "Spider-Man Unlimited 1.4.1a"

$aRes = StringRegExp($sText, "(?m)^(.+?)(?|\h(\d(?:\.\d+)+\w?)|())$", 3)
Local $aRet[UBound($aRes) / 2][2]
For $i = 0 To UBound($aRes) - 1 Step 2
    $aRet[$i / 2][0] = $aRes[$i]
    $aRet[$i / 2][1] = $aRes[$i + 1]
Next
_ArrayDisplay($aRet)