String not being a valid number

Hi,
I'm processing a set of strings in a loop, and I just want to continue if certain Strings are not valid numbers. I don't want an Exception thrown, I just want to skip over that String that is not a valid number. Any suggestions. Thank you.

Yeahhh, I agree with the last post now, scrap my
other reply.Well, it was just a little regex-test for fun* andI
wouldn't suggest the OP to use it in his
real-life code.
Reply #1 is (IMHO) the safest way to go aboutthis:
just (try) to parse it to whatever primitive you
want, and catch a possible exception.
* I made it a couple of days back: so I didn'tcome
up with it within the few minutes between george's
and my replies.Yeah I still think the first reply was best, much
easier to write atleast.
Besides that thing was a bit scary. It reminded me of
some AWK scripts I saw on a Unix forum and I just
thought wtf?Guy I work with is always bragging about his flatmates (I know!) mad SED skills. Impressive though I'm sure they are, I don't go drinking with these boys

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