On Jan 27, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Kay C Lan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> My suggested solution is where ever the data originally came from, prior to
> inputting into your fields, variables or custom properties, it should be
> tested to confirm that the data only contains ASCII chars 48 to 57 (unless
> you include thousand separators and or decimal points, in which case you'd
> have to include their ASCII equivalents as well).
> 
> HTH

How about something like this?

put “0123456789.,” into tList
—put the text you want to check in pText

repeat with x = 1 to number of chars in pText
   if char x of pText is in tList then put char x of pText in tCleanText
end repeat

put tCleanText

John Balgenorth



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