[Gambas-user] Inbuilt function to check if a string contains a valid number

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi,
> 
> Is there an inbuilt function in Gambas 2 (2.21) to check if a string
> contains a valid number?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vikram Nair

No, but you can do that:

DIM MyNumber AS Float
TRY MyNumber = Val(MyString)
IF ERROR THEN PRINT "Not a valid number"

In Gambas3, IsNumber() does what you want. But not in Gambas 2, beware!

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Benoît Minisini