# Detecting the type of user input

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**Created:** [November 19, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/detecting-the-type-of-user-input/122803 "2024-11-19T06:43:35Z")\
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The input you will get, will _always_ be a string.  
You can test whether it is a number using `parse` , cf. [Numbers · The Julia Language](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/numbers/#Base.parse)  
or also the thread [Type-safe conversion of strings to numbers](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/type-safe-conversion-of-strings-to-numbers/105812)

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