Re: Isnumeric function?

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 06:44, Theo Galanakis wrote:
> How could you determine if a value being inserted into a varchar
> column is numeric?
> 
> I was thinking of using a Regular expression to find this, something
> like
> 
> .. Where content ~* '^[0-9]{1,10}'
~ '^[0-9]+$'

Your version only checks the beginning of the string.

> There must be an easier way like a isNumeric() function?

Not that I know of.

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