jorisvandenbossche commented on issue #34976:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/34976#issuecomment-1503481165

   @randolf-scholz thanks for raising the issue! That would indeed be useful 
addition. I am going to close this as a duplicate of 
https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20486, since that already exists for 
adding such an option to the cast kernel.
   
   > function that returns boolean mask whether string can be cast to float
   
   I understand that this would give a workaround, but I would say that ideally 
we have that option, and then this one might be a bit specific? 
   As you show, we already have the `utf8_is_numeric` kernel, but the problem 
is that this is too simplistic and fails if there is a "+" or "-" in the 
string, or a thousands separate, ..?
   


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