Purpose

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  This function determines whether a variable corresponds to a
  numeric data type.

Category

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  Utilities.

Calling Sequence

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  result = isnumeric(expr)

Inputs

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  expr: A variable

Outputs

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  1 if expr is a numeric scalar or array. 0 otherwise.

Modification History

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  Sep 2009: Written by Chris Beaumont