check String for letters ?
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Hey Guys, I have an Editbox and I want to start my program only if the Editbox Input are only numbers. Unfortunately, get(handle.editbox,'String') gives the Input back as String. So how can i check whether the user only entered numbers ?
isnumeric wont work i guess
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  per isakson
      
      
 on 27 Sep 2014
        
      Edited: per isakson
      
      
 on 27 Sep 2014
  
      One way
    is_num = not( isnan( str2double( str ) ) );
or
    is_num = not( isnan( str2double( get(handle.editbox,'String') ) ) );
 
Won't work if user inputs "nan" :-(
    >> isnumeric( nan ) 
    ans =
         1
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