any idea how i could test if a variable is a floating point number?

[Gaz]

thanks   :)

gaz

<gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > any idea how i could test if a variable is a floating point
> number?
>
> type(variable)==type(1.0)