Best implementation for an isNumber(string) method

Question

In my limited experience, I\'ve been on several projects that have had some sort of string utility class with methods to determine if a given string is a number. The idea h

Answer 1

Here is our way of doing this:

public boolean isNumeric(String string) throws IllegalArgumentException
{
   boolean isnumeric = false;

   if (string != null && !string.equals(""))
   {
      isnumeric = true;
      char chars[] = string.toCharArray();

      for(int d = 0; d < chars.length; d++)
      {
         isnumeric &= Character.isDigit(chars[d]);

         if(!isnumeric)
         break;
      }
   }
   return isnumeric;
}