How to check if a String is numeric in Java

Question

How would you check if a String was a number before parsing it?

Answer 1

This a simple example for this check:

public static boolean isNumericString(String input) {
    boolean result = false;

    if(input != null && input.length() > 0) {
        char[] charArray = input.toCharArray();

        for(char c : charArray) {
            if(c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
                // it is a digit
                result = true;
            } else {
                result = false;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    return result;
}