Re: Verifying data type

Thanks, but the number may be a float, like '1.23,00', '12.323,00',
'12,34'.... :(
The regex works fine if it just an integer...

Have some regex to "compare"?

Tom Lane wrote:

>=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Elieser_Le=E3o?= <elieser(at)nho(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
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>>I need to verify if the data in p_valor is just number or it is a string.
>>What is the best way to do this?
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>In PG 8.0 you can just do it exactly the way your Oracle original does,
>viz try to cram it into a numeric variable and catch the exception if
>any.
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>In earlier versions, my thoughts would run to some kind of string
>matching test using a regular expression.
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>The regexp method is probably significantly faster though, so maybe you
>want to do it anyway, especially if you don't need the full generality
>of possible floating-point formats. You might get away with something
>as simple as "p_valor ~ '^[0-9]+$'" if you only care about unsigned
>integer inputs.
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> regards, tom lane
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