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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:24:47 -0800
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From: "Mladen Gogala" <mladen@wangtrading.com>
Subject: RE: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric
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create or replace function
isnumeric(str varchar2) return boolean deterministic
as
  num number:=0;
begin
  num:=to_number(str);
  return(true);
exception
  when others then
return(false);
end;
/

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors@fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors@fatcity.com] On 
> Behalf Of Shiva Maran
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:35 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>   I am investigating an effort to move our product into 
> Oracle from SQL Server. Came across the function isnumeric, 
> isdate in SQL Server that returns true or false if the input 
> string is in a form that can be converted into a numeric or 
> date type. searched in oracle help and am not able to find an 
> equivalent. Is there any equivalent form of these functions 
> in Oracle??
> 
> Thanks,
> ShivaM
> 
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