IsNumeric in Open Office Basic or VBA

Question

Is there a function that tests for a string (non numeric) values and returns a boolean value in Open Office Basic?

I tried IsNumeric on a string and it returns a boolean False. But when I negate it with Not(IsNumeric(value)), it converts the return value to a long or an int.

Answer 1

For Open Office Basic, you can use ISNUMBER()

ISNUMBER(123)

returns TRUE.

Answer 2

I've spent hours trying to work out what was up with the ISNUMERIC ...

if IsNumeric(oSheet.GetCellByPosition( 8,iRow).String) then
    oSheet.GetCellByPosition(20,iRow).Value = oSheet.GetCellByPosition( 8,iRow).Value()
else
    oSheet.GetCellByPosition(20,iRow).String = oSheet.GetCellByPosition( 8,iRow).String()
endif

The problem was the fact that attribute feeding into the IsNumeric function must be a string ( not an object or a numeric! )

I will be contacting Andrew Pitonak to ask him to makes this clearer in his manuals.