is_nan()

The is_nan() function checks whether the argument is not a number.

Syntax

$result = is_nan(n);

Returns 1 if n is not a number, else returns nothing.

Codebyte Example

The following codebyte example uses is_nan() on the values of 10 and sqrt(-1) to check if each one is ‘not a number’:

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