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Daybreaker
Daybreaker

Reputation: 1047

How to check whether a value is a numeric value in Prolog?

When someone enters a value (Year), I want to validate the value. I.e., I want to check whether the value is a numeric. I am new to Prolog. Can you help me with this.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 455

Answers (1)

CapelliC
CapelliC

Reputation: 60004

just write down - in Prolog - the rules that - under your judgment - define what a valid year must be. For example

valid_year(Y) :-
  integer(Y), Y > 0, Y =< 2014.

You can see from this snippet that your question is largely unspecified: what about future ? and far past ? What about other calendar systems (there are plenty) ?

In SWI-Prolog, there is extensive support for time and date, but I feel it is definitely beyond your current requirements...

Upvotes: 2

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