VersionParser
    
            
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Version parser.
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Properties
- $modifierRegex : string
- Regex to match pre-release data (sort of).
- $stabilitiesRegex : string
Methods
- normalize() : string
- Normalizes a version string to be able to perform comparisons on it.
- normalizeBranch() : string
- Normalizes a branch name to be able to perform comparisons on it.
- normalizeDefaultBranch() : string
- Normalizes a default branch name (i.e. master on git) to 9999999-dev.
- normalizeStability() : string
- parseConstraints() : ConstraintInterface
- Parses a constraint string into MultiConstraint and/or Constraint objects.
- parseNumericAliasPrefix() : string|false
- Extract numeric prefix from alias, if it is in numeric format, suitable for version comparison.
- parseStability() : string
- Returns the stability of a version.
- expandStability() : string
- Expand shorthand stability string to long version.
- manipulateVersionString() : string|null
- Increment, decrement, or simply pad a version number.
- parseConstraint() : array<string|int, mixed>
Properties
$modifierRegex
Regex to match pre-release data (sort of).
    private
    static    string
    $modifierRegex
     = '[._-]?(?:(stable|beta|b|RC|alpha|a|patch|pl|p)((?:[.-]?\d+)*+)?)?([.-]?dev)?'
        Due to backwards compatibility:
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Instead of enforcing hyphen, an underscore, dot or nothing at all are also accepted. 
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Only stabilities as recognized by Composer are allowed to precede a numerical identifier. 
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Numerical-only pre-release identifiers are not supported, see tests. |--------------|
[major].[minor].[patch] -[pre-release] +[build-metadata]
$stabilitiesRegex
    private
    static    string
    $stabilitiesRegex
     = 'stable|RC|beta|alpha|dev'
    
    
    
Methods
normalize()
Normalizes a version string to be able to perform comparisons on it.
    public
                    normalize(string $version[, string|null $fullVersion = null ]) : string
    Parameters
- $version : string
- $fullVersion : string|null = null
- 
                    optional complete version string to give more context 
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Return values
stringnormalizeBranch()
Normalizes a branch name to be able to perform comparisons on it.
    public
                    normalizeBranch(string $name) : string
    Parameters
- $name : string
Return values
stringnormalizeDefaultBranch()
Normalizes a default branch name (i.e. master on git) to 9999999-dev.
    public
                    normalizeDefaultBranch(string $name) : string
    Parameters
- $name : string
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Return values
stringnormalizeStability()
    public
            static        normalizeStability(string $stability) : string
    Parameters
- $stability : string
Return values
stringparseConstraints()
Parses a constraint string into MultiConstraint and/or Constraint objects.
    public
                    parseConstraints(string $constraints) : ConstraintInterface
    Parameters
- $constraints : string
Return values
ConstraintInterfaceparseNumericAliasPrefix()
Extract numeric prefix from alias, if it is in numeric format, suitable for version comparison.
    public
                    parseNumericAliasPrefix(string $branch) : string|false
    Parameters
- $branch : string
- 
                    Branch name (e.g. 2.1.x-dev) 
Return values
string|false —Numeric prefix if present (e.g. 2.1.) or false
parseStability()
Returns the stability of a version.
    public
            static        parseStability(string $version) : string
    Parameters
- $version : string
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Return values
stringexpandStability()
Expand shorthand stability string to long version.
    private
                    expandStability(string $stability) : string
    Parameters
- $stability : string
Return values
stringmanipulateVersionString()
Increment, decrement, or simply pad a version number.
    private
                    manipulateVersionString(array<string|int, mixed> $matches, int $position[, int $increment = 0 ][, string $pad = '0' ]) : string|null
    Parameters
- $matches : array<string|int, mixed>
- 
                    Array with version parts in array indexes 1,2,3,4 
- $position : int
- 
                    1,2,3,4 - which segment of the version to increment/decrement 
- $increment : int = 0
- $pad : string = '0'
- 
                    The string to pad version parts after $position 
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Return values
string|null —The new version
parseConstraint()
    private
                    parseConstraint(string $constraint) : array<string|int, mixed>
    Parameters
- $constraint : string