Is there a way to test if a varchar is cast-able into a int before casting it?

David_Chen · January 2014

Is there a way to test if a varchar is cast-able into a int before casting it? select (int '3'); works. But I don't know what values I will be getting; I just know that they are supposed to be integers. What I need is something like: select case when isInteger('4') is true then cast('4' as int) else null end as mycolumn;

Peter_Sheridan · January 2014

During imports I'll typically use regexp_like for this and check for non-digit characters, e.g.

select regexp_like('abc', '[^0-9]');
true
select regexp_like('1234', '[^0-9]');
false

Is there a way to test if a varchar is cast-able into a int before casting it?

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