What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

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What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?

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What does the IS NUMERIC clause establish ?
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Post by Krishna » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:18 pm

IS NUMERIC can be used on alphanumeric items, signed numeric & packed decimal items and usigned numeric & packed decimal items. IS NUMERIC returns TRUE if the item only consists of 0-9. However, if the item being tested is a signed item, then it may contain 0-9, + and - .
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