Source File
	versions.go

Belonging Package
	golang.org/x/tools/internal/versions

// Copyright 2023 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package versions

import (
	"strings"
)

// Note: If we use build tags to use go/versions when go >=1.22,
// we run into go.dev/issue/53737. Under some operations users would see an
// import of "go/versions" even if they would not compile the file.
// For example, during `go get -u ./...` (go.dev/issue/64490) we do not try to include
// For this reason, this library just a clone of go/versions for the moment.

// Lang returns the Go language version for version x.
// If x is not a valid version, Lang returns the empty string.
// For example:
//
//	Lang("go1.21rc2") = "go1.21"
//	Lang("go1.21.2") = "go1.21"
//	Lang("go1.21") = "go1.21"
//	Lang("go1") = "go1"
//	Lang("bad") = ""
//	Lang("1.21") = ""
func Lang(x string) string {
	v := lang(stripGo(x))
	if v == "" {
		return ""
	}
	return x[:2+len(v)] // "go"+v without allocation
}

// Compare returns -1, 0, or +1 depending on whether
// x < y, x == y, or x > y, interpreted as Go versions.
// The versions x and y must begin with a "go" prefix: "go1.21" not "1.21".
// Invalid versions, including the empty string, compare less than
// valid versions and equal to each other.
// The language version "go1.21" compares less than the
// release candidate and eventual releases "go1.21rc1" and "go1.21.0".
// Custom toolchain suffixes are ignored during comparison:
// "go1.21.0" and "go1.21.0-bigcorp" are equal.
func Compare(x, y string) int { return compare(stripGo(x), stripGo(y)) }

// IsValid reports whether the version x is valid.
func IsValid(x string) bool { return isValid(stripGo(x)) }

// stripGo converts from a "go1.21" version to a "1.21" version.
// If v does not start with "go", stripGo returns the empty string (a known invalid version).
func stripGo(v string) string {
	v, _, _ = strings.Cut(v, "-") // strip -bigcorp suffix.
	if len(v) < 2 || v[:2] != "go" {
		return ""
	}
	return v[2:]
}

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