Yes, I've been caught out by this before 
The key is in the wording of the documentation

" Returns TRUE if string can be *converted* to a number" 

which is also the same reason why isDate() is useless!

Kola


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>> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] isnumeric() Question...
>> 
>> yes agreed. perhaps it is a case of CF trying to be too (!?) clever?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: 15 March 2004 10:50
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>> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] isnumeric() Question...
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>> 
>> 
>> > or just do a simple replace on all " " for "_" perhaps?  It
>> > would certainly return false then...?
>> 
>> You can just use val() on it to get the actual value, but it just
seems
>> counter-intuitive that you need both isnumeric() AND val() to make
sure
>> you've got a numeric value.  As I see it, if the value contains *any*
>> non-numeric characters, isnumeric() should return FALSE.
>> 
>> Tim.
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