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pablazo on 05/23/07


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check if a string is a number

Published in: Java 

URL: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=586718&messageID=3024348

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  1. try {
  2.     Double.parseDouble(yourString);
  3. } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
  4.     // yourString ain't 10.6, that's for sure
  5. }

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Posted By: tonicharlot on August 14, 2008

Regex would probably be a better option here:

return yourString!=null && yourString.matches("\d{1-5}");

The above would return true for an input between 0 and 65535. Of course the regex used can be more realistic to take formatting and decimals into consideration.

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