>>Hello,
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>>a simple question and I hope to find a simple answer:
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>>I want to test if the input in a textbox is numeric or character. How can I determine that for example '123 piano' is character and not numeric (using the val() function returns 123.00) ??
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>>Greetz,
>>Hans
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?empty(strtran(chrtran(lcString,"-1234567890.","999999999999"),"9",""))

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>assuming your separator is .

But I think Yuri's answer is better since mine doesn't take into account scientific notation or hexadecimal.