Re: Distinguishing between purely numerical data and alphanumeric data

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> How does one detect the presence of a blank string (either spaces or
> newlines) ?

Depending on how specific you want to get, you can do

x = '';
if isempty(x)
   blah
endif

or you can go all out and do

x = '';
if isempty(x) && ischar(x)
   blah
endif

Bill

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