LeetCode 165, Medium. Topics: Two Pointers, String. View on LeetCode.
Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 20 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:
Problem
Given two version strings, version1 and version2, compare them. A version string consists of revisions separated by dots '.'. The value of the revision is its integer conversion ignoring leading zeros.
To compare version strings, compare their revision values in left-to-right order. If one of the version strings has fewer revisions, treat the missing revision values as 0.
Return the following:
- If version1 < version2, return -1.
- If version1 > version2, return 1.
- Otherwise, return 0.
Examples
Constraints
1 <= version1.length, version2.length <= 500
version1 and version2 only contain digits and '.'.
version1 and version2 are valid version numbers.
- All the given revisions in
version1 and version2 can be stored in a 32-bit integer.
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
Last modified on September 7, 2026