On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:59:45PM -0600, Mike Nolan wrote:
> An 'isnumeric(column)' boolean function in a case statment would be
> very helpful so that I can program around the bad data.
>
> I'll probably write it in perl, but would making it part of the source
> code provide significantly faster execution?
Couldn't you just use a regex match? foo ~ '-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?' or
somesuch.
Cheers,
Steve
