"functions">Functions</h2>
<p>All methods and classes take a final <code>loose</code> boolean argument that, if
true, will be more forgiving about not-quite-valid semver strings.
The resulting output will always be 100% strict, of course.</p>
<p>Strict-mode Comparators and Ranges will be strict about the SemVer
strings that they parse.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>valid(v)</code>: Return the parsed version, or null if it&#39;s not valid.</li>
<li><code>inc(v, release)</code>: Return the version incremented by the rel