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From: mabes180@aol.com (Sarah Thomas)
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Subject: how to check if a string variable contains a number or string?
Date: 18 Nov 2002 12:41:06 -0800
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I have an array of strings that I read in from a file. I want to check
if each element in the array is a string or if it is a number. is
there any predefined functions that would help do that? thanks