Check if a string could be considered as numeric.

Source: R/can-be-num.R

After padding is removed, could the input string be considered to be numeric, i.e. could it be coerced to numeric. This function is vectorized over its one argument.

str_can_be_numeric(string)

Arguments

string

A character vector.

Value

A logical vector.

Examples

str_can_be_numeric("3")
#> [1] TRUE
str_can_be_numeric("5 ")
#> [1] TRUE
str_can_be_numeric(c("1a", "abc"))
#> [1] FALSE FALSE