Coerce a string to integer?

[jaskij]

I have a variable that contains a string, say, 10. I want to use a numerical comparison against a fixed value (9), but am getting an error about differing types.

What I want to achieve is to check the major version of a program used in my Taskfile, to not use incompatible features. Basically the same thing as the comparison example in templating reference, except the version number is obtained from a shell command.

vars:
  KICAD_MAJOR:
    sh: kicad-cli --version | cut -d. -f1

The comparison I want that is currently not working:

    if: '{{lt .KICAD_MAJOR 10}}'

[jaskij]

Just found the atoi function. Now need to figure how to stack them, but that's a separate topic.