I normally use VAR MATCHES '1N0N]1N0N"."1N0N' where ] is a value mark.
Different strokes, I guess. There are many ways to skin a cat, but no
matter which one you use, the cat ain't gonna like it.
Charlie
On 05-08-2013 9:38 AM, George Gallen wrote:
I Usually use NUM(xx) and xx#"" to combat that one.
Never really thought about "." - I would think that would be treated as 0.0 in
any calculations?
Guess I'll have to test that one out...
George
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NUM() will validate '' (null string) as numeric, and I believe some
implementations would validate '.' (decimal point) as numeric, although
the version of Jbase I'm on, running Universe emulation, does not.
Charlie
On 05-08-2013 8:39 AM, George Gallen wrote:
The only thing I could think of is it could validate it as being a number, but
then
So would NUM().
George
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