Isnumeric function?

How could you determine if a value being inserted into a varchar column is
numeric?

I was thinking of using a Regular expression to find this, something like

.. Where content ~* '^[0-9]{1,10}'

There must be an easier way like a isNumeric() function?

Theo

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