Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2008, CCTC - Computer Science and Technology Center IBB-DEB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering - Department of Biological Engineering University of Minho This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with this code. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Created inside the SysBio Research Group (http://sysbio.di.uminho.pt) University of Minho */ public class Main { public static boolean isNumber(String s) { boolean pointcanappear = true; boolean signcanappear = true; boolean res = true; int i = 0; if (s.length() == 0) res = false; while (i < s.length() && res) { char c = s.charAt(i); boolean ok = false; if (Character.isWhitespace(c)) ok = true; else if (Character.isDigit(c)) { if (signcanappear) signcanappear = false; ok = true; } else if (c == '-' && signcanappear) { signcanappear = false; ok = true; } else if ((c == '.' || c == ',') && pointcanappear) { pointcanappear = false; ok = true; } if (ok) i++; else res = false; } return res; } }