[Gambas-user] Removing / Modifying IsXXXX() functions in Gambas3

[Benoît Minisini]

> 
> Benoît,
> 
> MAJOR PANIC!  I use IsNumber extensively to do quick checks on field
> parsing across heterogeneous databases.  Using the 80-20 rule I can parse
> text fields for junk appendices to an expected numeric.
> Code such as
> 
> 	vItem=split(result!note," ",NULL,TRUE)[0]
>        IF IsNumber(vItem) THEN RETURN Val(vItem)
> '     else begin parsing diabolical note structure
>     .....
> 
> abounds.
> 
> Please reconsider this.

Then you are using IsNumber() the wrong way: in your code, vItem is a string 
(I guess), and so IsNumber(vItem) will always return FALSE.

You used IsNumber() as if it would tell you if a string can be converted to a 
number, which it does not at the moment! And which is exactly what I want to 
change!

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Benoît Minisini