From: walter harms
Date: October 15 2009 11:03am
Subject: Re: is_string or is_numeric
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Do your realy need to know the differenz ? take everything as "string".
(breaks with pics/geodata but helps a lot).

re,
 wh

sangprabv schrieb:
> Hi,
> I found no built in function in mysql to check whether a record is
> numeric or string. Is there any trick to do so? Many thanks.
> 
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> Willy
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