[ncl-talk] Is string numeric?

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Carl,

Thanks for publishing this function.  I have wanted this for a while, but
never got around to making one.  It is very handy for working with real
world text data with the possibility of formatting problems.

--Dave


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Carl Schreck <cjschrec at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Turns out it wasn't too hard to make a quick and dirty function for this.
> It will miss some things, but probably good enough.
>
> Thanks!
> Carl
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Carl Schreck <cjschrec at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is there a function that would tell me if a string is a numeric? i.e.,
>> contains no letters and "tofloat" won't give a warning on it?
>>
>> If not, has anyone already made one? Thanks!
>>
>> e.g.:
>> str_is_numeric( "215" ) => True
>> str_is_numeric( "21.5" ) => True
>> str_is_numeric( "21e5" ) => True
>> str_is_numeric( "21N5" ) => False
>>
>> Carl
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