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From: "Christian Vandendorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> What I do is that I take that string and use StrAToI to get a number, if
> that number is 0 then it means that the string entered was invalid.

Well, not necessarily. How does the user enter 0? :)

> I
> mean what is the big deal to try to write some extremely complex routine
> that allows users only to enter valid number strings. Let users enter
> what they want (eg "1-2.3-...24----24") but then react accordingly. It
> will save you precious space.

But I agree completely with this. We programmers have a tendency to spend a
lot of time on details--the trick is to make sure those details are
important. This one isn't.


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