# TmuxVersion.init(parsing:)

- **Module:** TmuxVersion
- **Package:** libtmux-swift
- **Language:** Swift
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-swift/blob/f02a4668570e1cc5198c941413750e021f42c214/Sources/LibTmux/TmuxVersion.swift#L32
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/swift/tmuxversion-init(parsing-)/

```
TmuxVersion.init(parsing:)(parsing: String)
```

Reads what `tmux -V` prints.

Returns `nil` rather than guessing: a version this cannot read is a tmux
whose behaviour this library has no basis to predict, and defaulting to
"probably recent" is how a workaround silently stops being applied.