Testing for NaN

[Robert Mark Bram]

Hi All!

I know I can test like this:
if (isNaN("blah"))

But when I try this it doesn't work:
if ("blah" == Number.NaN)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any advice!

Rob
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[Robert Mark Bram]

> I know I can test like this:

if (isNaN("blah"))

But when I try this it doesn't work:
if ("blah" == Number.NaN)
Correction. I meant to say:
if (parseInt ("blah") == Number.NaN)
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any advice!

Rob
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[Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft]

Hi,

Robert Mark Bram wrote:

I know I can test like this:
if (isNaN("blah"))

But when I try this it doesn't work:
if ("blah" == Number.NaN)

Correction. I meant to say:
if (parseInt ("blah") == Number.NaN)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any advice!

Rob

You didn't read the doc:

<quote>
NaN is always unequal to any other number, including NaN itself; you
cannot check for the not-a-number value by comparing to Number.NaN. Use
the isNaN function instead.
</quote>

From:
<URL:
http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.5/reference/number.html#1193302>

HTH,

Laurent
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[Robert Mark Bram]

> You didn't read the doc:

<quote>
NaN is always unequal to any other number, including NaN itself; you
cannot check for the not-a-number value by comparing to Number.NaN. Use
the isNaN function instead.
</quote>

Oh. So much for that then. Thank you very much for pointing it out Laurent!

Rob
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[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <op*****************@news.optusnet.com.au>, seen in
news:comp.lang.javascript, Robert Mark Bram <re********@remove.this.optu
snet.com.au> posted at Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:04:00 :-

I know I can test like this:
if (isNaN("blah"))

But when I try this it doesn't work:
if ("blah" == Number.NaN)

What am I doing wrong?

Using the second method instead of the first. Deciding that you know
what the second should do without reference to adequate documentation.
A NaN is not equal to anything at all, not even to another NaN generated
the same way, or to a copy of itself.
One use of this, BTW, is in dealing with a user-given range. If the
test is carefully arranged, it can give the desired result with NaN :

if (!(Y2-Y1<26) || Y1>Y2) { // does NaN
DynWrite(Div, "<b>Bad Range<\/b>") ; return }

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