On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 06:44, Theo Galanakis wrote:
> How could you determine if a value being inserted into a varchar
> column is numeric?
>
> I was thinking of using a Regular expression to find this, something
> like
>
> .. Where content ~* '^[0-9]{1,10}'
~ '^[0-9]+$'
Your version only checks the beginning of the string.
> There must be an easier way like a isNumeric() function?
Not that I know of.
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