Lucien asked, " Is that a relic from prehistoric ages ?"
Yes. E was the original exponent marker for what we would now call float values. D was added to distinguish double from (single-precision) float. This had nothing to do with (Visual) Basic (for Applications) originally. To know what is recognized as a number, someone should specify the grammar for such constants, and then there's something to QA against. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Lucien Mathay <mat...@live.fr> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 08:12 To: qa@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: isnumeric function Le 23/06/22 à 16:23, Dave a écrit : > Like Pedro, I can replicate your issue, but cannot explain it, other > than to say it might be that the function is seeing 123D456 as a Hex > value, which equates to Decimal 19.125.334. > Dave, the problem then is that 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'F' are not accepted Only 'D' and 'E' are accepted : - 'E' probably stands for Exponent, thus is should be valid character in the numeric string - 'D' : something like "Decimal" ? [orcmid] [ ... ] - I note that msgbox ("123D-456") also returns True : 'D' seems thus to behave like an exponent. Power of 10 maybe ? - lets test msgbox("123D3") : it prints out 123000 ; it seems thus perfectly equivalent to "123E3" Note that msgbox CDbl("123D3") does not loop but prints out 123000 Is that a relic from prehistoric ages ? Lucien. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qa-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: qa-h...@openoffice.apache.org