SQL IsNumeric not working

Question

The reserve column is a varchar, to perform sums on it I want to cast it to a deciaml. But the SQL below gives me an error

select
cast(Reserve as decimal)
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Answer 1

I am also facing this issue and I solved by below method. I am sharing this because it may helpful to some one.

declare @g varchar (50)
 set @g=char(10)
 select isnumeric(@g),@g, isnumeric(replace(replace(@g,char(13),char(10)),char(10),''))