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On 10/15/2016 10:16 PM, 4ndre4 wrote:
> On 16/10/2016 01:30, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> [...]
>> = is fine for String. But < <= > >= can be problematic:
>
> I know well, but - as said in my previous post - I am assuming that the
> comparator would parse the version and carry out a correct comparison on
> its single parts. Similarly to having a sstring representing a date.
> It's not that strings are problematic to represent strings; you have to
> parse those strings correctly.

Yes.

But that model is really using a dedicated class to represent
the item and all comparisons should be done on instances of
that class and String is just an external representation used
outside of Java.

Arne