From: "Paul" <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: determining input data type
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:17:35 GMT
Date: 2008-10-18T06:17:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cfKk.6357$sc2.1778@news-server.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: M8bKk.392682$yE1.130775@attbi_s21
Or you could test for characters in the range '0' .. '9'. You'll still need
to wrap it up inside an exception handler.
Paul
"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote in message
news:M8bKk.392682$yE1.130775@attbi_s21...
> jedivaughn wrote:
>> Hi, How is the best way to determine the type of input. I have the
>> input coming in through a string but if the contents of the string is
>> an integer then I want to convert it to such. This seems like it
>> should be very easy to do but I can't seem to find out how to do it
>> any where.
>
> You could use Integer'Value. If it succeeds, than it represents an
> Integer. If it fails, then it doesn't.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"
> Horse Feathers
> 49
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-18 0:48 determining input data type jedivaughn
2008-10-18 1:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-10-18 6:17 ` Paul [this message]
2008-10-18 6:53 ` deadlyhead
2008-10-18 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-10-18 18:54 ` anon
2008-10-20 11:01 ` jedivaughn
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