From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: determining input data type
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:41:00 GMT
Date: 2008-10-18T01:41:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <M8bKk.392682$yE1.130775@attbi_s21> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d39e1918-0c74-40b5-860d-f8d93181afd2@p59g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
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
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2008-10-18 0:48 determining input data type jedivaughn
2008-10-18 1:41 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2008-10-18 6:17 ` Paul
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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