Strip release candidate suffix

[theory]

This prevented the ${major%.*} -ge 17 lines from working. I wasn't able to get a single regex to work with Bash 3.2.57, so just added a second replacement line.

[fluca1978]

Sorry for late replying, I was away from my keyboard.

Does using sed seem to be a good option?
major=$(echo $v | sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]\)\(beta\|rc\)[0-9]/\1/' )

Another ugly trick, could be this:
major=${v//[[:alpha:]]*[0-9]/}

and it's ugly because it is tripping of everything with text, not just beta and rc.

@theory what do you prefer?

[theory]

Aaaah, I had tried major=${v//[[:alpha:]]+[0-9]/} but it didn't work. Interesting that major=${v//[[:alpha:]]*[0-9]/} does (only change: * instead of +). I'm totally fine with it. What do you prefer?

[fluca1978]

Aaaah, I had tried major=${v//[[:alpha:]]+[0-9]/} but it didn't work. Interesting that major=${v//[[:alpha:]]*[0-9]/} does (only change: * instead of +). I'm totally fine with it. What do you prefer?

Yesh, I forgot to mention that * is not working as we would expect in regular expressions. This is the time I miss Perl the most!