ISNUMBER function

Kavadera
Kavadera
in Modeling Ideas

There is currently no way no easy way to identify whether data is numeric or not. The workaround for X is to check the following set of conditions:

NOT (VALUE(X) <= 0 OR VALUE(X) >= 0)

Currently this is certainly not a consistent approach and there is always a risk that the comparison operators ("<=" and ">=") will start behaving differently which will lead to errors.

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  • Miran
    Miran
    Status changed to: New
  • HannahBrink
    HannahBrink

    I know this is old but just ran into this myself wanted to share in case anyone runs into this. I found that using Value (text)*0=0 works as anything that is not a number will return NaN and therefore fails the check.

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