VI functions

Does anyone know of a function that can be used in VI to evaluate a temp field as to whether it is numeric or not.  I need to do conditional value assignment based  on whether a temp field is numeric or not.  I realize I can do this by adding the field in numerous times and having a condition line NUM(TEMP001$) = "1" but then I have to add in the same field 36 times to evaluate for numbers and characters.  

Thanks,

Tim