>>>Or, better, you can use StrFilter() from, ahem, Foxtools :)
>>>
>>>lcJustDigits=strfilter(myNumber, '0123456789.+-')
>>>if lcJustDigits=myNumber
>>> * it's really a number
>>>else ... well, maybe not.
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>> I haven't seen your post, because you didn't put it in my folder :). Anyway, if it requires to set library to foxtools, I would better use George's function (my idea was similar, but since George developed it, I called it George's).
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>In this message you have already written "set library to foxtools", so, you see, it's not hard to do :). You can do it in your main.prg as well, and live happily ever after...

You mean that there are actually people who don't have SET LIBRARY TO FOXTOOLS in their main program. I'm shocked! What's this world coming to?< bg >