Numeric OR Non-numeric???!!!

Hi All,
From a string, i retrieve the last character sucessfully...
Need to find, whether the retrieved character is a numeric or non numeric...
and based on that need to check some further conditions...!
Is there any way, to identify whether the retrieved character is a numeric or non numeric????
Kindly, help to throw some lights!!!
Thanks!!!
Cheers,
Sundar.

Hi
You can do something like this.
report zrich_0001.
data: str type string.
data: valid_characters type string.
concatenate '0123456789' sy-abcde into valid_characters.
str = '123ABC'.
if str co valid_characters.
else.
message e001(00) with 'You have a problem'.
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