Replacement for IsNumeric??

[Howard Kaikow]

Does VB .NET or the framework include a function/method that correctly
identifies the following as not being numeric?

3,6
3,,6

Assuming the decimal mark is Full Stop.

And, if the decimal mark is COMMA:

3.6 and 3..6 would be invalid

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Howard Kaikow" <ka****@standards.com> scripsit:

Does VB .NET or the framework include a function/method that correctly
identifies the following as not being numeric?

Have a look at 'Double.TryParse'.

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
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[AirPete]

Howard Kaikow wrote:

Does VB .NET or the framework include a function/method that correctly
identifies the following as not being numeric?

3,6
3,,6

Assuming the decimal mark is Full Stop.

And, if the decimal mark is COMMA:

3.6 and 3..6 would be invalid

It's a little inefficent, but you could do something like:

public function isnumeric(str as string) as bool
try
decimal.parse(str)
return true
catch
return false
end try
end function
- Pete

[AirPete]

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

* "Howard Kaikow" <ka****@standards.com> scripsit:

Does VB .NET or the framework include a function/method that
correctly identifies the following as not being numeric?

Have a look at 'Double.TryParse'.

This is the better solution; exceptions are very inefficent. I looked for
Decimal.TryParse, but didn't find it :)

- Pete

[Howard Kaikow]

Alas, Parse has the same issue as IsNumeric, e.g., "100,14" gets converted
to 10014.

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* "Howard Kaikow" <ka****@standards.com> scripsit:

Does VB .NET or the framework include a function/method that correctly
identifies the following as not being numeric?

Have a look at 'Double.TryParse'.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>