C# equivalent to the VB.NET IsNumeric Function

One of the great function VB.NET makes available to developers is the "InNumeric" function. This function returns a boolean value indicating wheather an expression can be evaluated as number or not. If you lookup the definition of it however, you will see that the function supported in C#.

There are several different ways to code a custom function to do the same in C#. Here is one way:

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public static bool IsNumeric(string psInputString)
{
 return Regex.IsMatch(psInputString, "^[0-9]+$");
}

And here is how Microsoft recommends it on THIS page:

static bool IsNumeric(object Expression)
{
 bool isNum;
 double retNum;
 isNum = Double.TryParse(
   Convert.ToString(Expression), 
   System.Globalization.NumberStyles.Any, 
   System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo, 
   out retNum );
 return isNum;
}

Either way you will get the same result.

Pete Soheil
DigiOz Multimedia
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