I am reading an ASCII data file and converting some of the strings to integers or floats. However, some of the data is corrupted and the conversion doesn't work. I know that I can us exceptions, but they don't seem like the cleanest and simplest solution to me. I would like to simply perform a pre-check before I do the conversion, but I can't figure out how to do it. I see that strings have a function called isdigit(), but that simply checks whether all characters in the string are digits -- not what I need. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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