March 28, 2022

How to Check if String is a Valid Integer in Javascript

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to check if string is a valid integer in javascript. There is no dedicated data type that represents integer in javascript. All the numbers or numeric values are of number type. Since we have integer type in various other programming languages, we mistakenly refer numeric values as integer type in javascript. The point to be noted here is that only a round number or whole number is considered to be a valid integer.

There are numerous ways to check if a string is a valid integer. We are going to use one of the easiest solutions which involves the usage of the typeof operator, isNaN() and parseInt() methods. The typeof operator returns the type of the variable. The isNaN() method checks whether a given string is a number or not. The parseInt() method takes a string as a parameter and returns an integer based upon the specified radix.

In the following example, we have one global variable and upon click of a button, we will check whether it is a valid integer or not and display the result on the screen. Please have a look over the code example and the steps given below.

HTML & CSS

We have 3 elements in the HTML file (div, button, and h1). The div element is just a wrapper for the rest of the elements.
The innerText for the button element is “Check” and for the h1 element, it is “Result”.
We have done some basic styling using CSS and added the link to our style.css stylesheet inside the head element.
We have also included our javascript file script.js with a script tag at the bottom.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
  <title>Document</title>
</head>

<body>

  <div class="container">    
    <button>Check</button>
    <h1>Result</h1>
  </div>

  <script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

</html>

.container {        
    text-align: center;
}

button {
  margin-top: 10px;
  padding: 10px 20px;
}

Javascript

We have selected the button element and h1 element using the document.querySelector() method and stored them in btnCheck and output variables respectively.
We have attached a click event listener to the button element.
We have a global variable myVar which holds a string as its value.
In the event handler function, we are calling the isInteger() method and passing myVar as a parameter.
In the isInteger() method, we are using the typeof operator to make sure the variable is of type string. If it is not of type string, we will return false.
In the next step, we are using isNaN() and parseInt() methods to make sure we have a valid integer.
Depending upon the result of the check, we will assign “Yes” or “No” to the result variable.
We are displaying the result in the h1 element using the innerText property.

let btnCheck = document.querySelector("button");
let output = document.querySelector("h1");

let myVar = "50";

btnCheck.addEventListener("click", () => {
  let result = isInteger(myVar) ? "Yes" : "No";
  output.innerText = result;
});


function isInteger(value) {
  if (typeof value != "string") return false;
  return !isNaN(value) && 
         parseInt(Number(value)) == value && 
         !isNaN(parseInt(value, 10));
}

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