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Re: how to tell it is character or it is number? [message #55211 is a reply to message #55209]

Tue, 07 August 2007 10:48

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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just use the byte function and check the values. Numbers 0-9 have ASCII
values of 48-57 dec or 30-39 hex. Haje

"queiny" <queiny98@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1186499635.496862.33320@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am reading in many line of mixed characters and numbers.
>
> AA,01,02,003,andefg
> BB,02,03,006,edjkflg
> ......
> FF,01,02,abc,eirjfdkf
> ......
>
> I need information from the 4th field, which can be either number or
> character. After I parsed the long records, I singled out this field.
> Is there a way I can tell whether it is numbers or it is characters?
> 'fix' command can convert the numbers, it will give an error message
> then continue to the execution.
>
> Thanks,
>

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		Re: how to tell it is character or it is number? By: queiny on Tue, 07 August 2007 10:59
		Re: how to tell it is character or it is number? By: Haje Korth on Tue, 07 August 2007 10:48
		Re: how to tell it is character or it is number? By: Conor on Tue, 07 August 2007 10:41
		Re: how to tell it is character or it is number? By: wlandsman on Tue, 07 August 2007 08:38

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