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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Birgitta Hauser
<Hauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, you only can check for numeric values by translating all digits (and
Decimal Point) into *Blanks and checking whether the string is not *Blank.
This is a nice and simple method for "well behaved" data, but has
limitations. For example, it will also consider '123.4.5.6' and '12
.3 4....' to be numeric values. It also doesn't handle negative
numbers or scientific notation, which may or may not be relevant.
The lack of an IsNumeric function is a common complaint. See this
article for more information:
http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg100808-printer02.html
tl;dr: Create a UDF. You'll probably need it over and over again
anyway, so in the long run you'll be glad you did.
John
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