Finding out whether a string is numeric or not

Question

How can we check if a string is made up of numbers only. I am taking out a substring from a string and want to check if it is a numeric substring or not.

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Answer 1

This original question was about Objective-C, but it was also posted years before Swift was announced. So, if you're coming here from Google and are looking for a solution that uses Swift, here you go:

let testString = "12345"
let badCharacters = NSCharacterSet.decimalDigitCharacterSet().invertedSet

if testString.rangeOfCharacterFromSet(badCharacters) == nil {
    print("Test string was a number")
} else {
    print("Test string contained non-digit characters.")
}