On Dec 08, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Kem Tekinay wrote:

On 12/8/06 4:35 PM, gary hayenga at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

took 131 seconds.  By substituting val( line ) <> 0 for isNumeric
( line ) I got it to 72 seconds, about 60% faster.

Unfortunately, that’s not the same thing. For example, this line would
return true:

 Val( “33back” )

very true

and doing something like

        trim(line) = format(val(line), "-#")

involves two conversions AND assumes an integer

What if you try

        isNumeric(trim(line))



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