PRoConEvents.MULTIbalancer.VersionToNumeric C# (CSharp) Method

        private uint VersionToNumeric(String ver)
        {
            uint numeric = 0;
            byte part = 0;
            Match m = Regex.Match(ver, @"^\s*([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)(\w*)\s*$");
            if (m.Success) {
            for (int i = 1; i < 5; ++i) {
            if (!Byte.TryParse(m.Groups[i].Value, out part)) {
                part = 0;
            }
            numeric = (numeric << 8) | part;
            }
            }
            return numeric;
        }