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Q: IsNumeric-function ?



Hello everybody!

I joined in this list yesterday and now I already have a
good (?) question.

We use SQRWB/3.0.7.0.1 in Sun/Solaris & Oracle 7.1 and I
needed to check in my program if first character in field
is numeric or not.

At first I tried to look in SQR-functions, but found nothing
to this purpose. Then I tried to do it in SQL, but couldn't think
of anything else but ugly decode(substr(field,1,1),1,'YES',2, ....

Does anybody know any way to do this easier in SQR or in Oracle SQL?


Thanks in advance
                   Timo

timo.kytta@vaasa.wartsila.infonet.com
http://www.pcuf.fi/~tik
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