Testing if a String is a number

Damien Cassou damien.cassou at laposte.net
Wed Jul 5 08:00:43 UTC 2006


ncellier at ifrance.com wrote:
> I suggest you use my Squeak NumberParser (See http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=3512 ) which has error handling a little bit more developped than just answering zero...
> 
> You could simply test is aNumber is read without error from (self readStream), and assert the stream atEnd.

Hi Nicolas,

I thought about your parser but did not tried it yet. Does somebody plan 
to include NumberParser into main stream ? I think it corrects some 
bugs, is a good refactoring and brings additional possibilities.

Thank you Nicolas

Bye



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