How to check if a value is a number in JavaScript
How is it possible to determine if a variable value is a number?
We have various ways to check if a value is a number.
The first is isNaN()
, a global variable, assigned to the window
object in the browser:
const value = 2
isNaN(value) //false
isNaN('test') //true
isNaN({}) //true
isNaN(1.2) //false
If isNaN()
returns false, the value is a number.
Another way is to use the typeof
operator. It returns the 'number'
string if you use it on a number value:
typeof 1 //'number'
const value = 2
typeof value //'number'
So you can do a conditional check like this:
const value = 2
if (typeof value === 'number') {
//it's a number
}
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