Check if character is number?

Question

I need to check whether justPrices[i].substr(commapos+2,1).

The string is something like: \"blabla,120\"

In this case it would check whether \'0

Answer 1

A simple solution by leveraging language's dynamic type checking:

function isNumber (string) {
   //it has whitespace
   if(string.trim() === ''){
     return false
   }
   return string - 0 === string * 1
}

see test cases below

function isNumber (str) {
   if(str.trim() === ''){
     return false
   }
   return str - 0 === str * 1
}


console.log('-1' + ' → ' + isNumber ('-1'))    
console.log('-1.5' + ' → ' + isNumber ('-1.5')) 
console.log('0' + ' → ' + isNumber ('0'))    
console.log(', ,' + ' → ' + isNumber (', ,'))  
console.log('0.42' + ' → ' + isNumber ('0.42'))   
console.log('.42' + ' → ' + isNumber ('.42'))    
console.log('#abcdef' + ' → ' + isNumber ('#abcdef'))
console.log('1.2.3' + ' → ' + isNumber ('1.2.3')) 
console.log('' + ' → ' + isNumber (''))    
console.log('blah' + ' → ' + isNumber ('blah'))