Need read-number function

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From: reingold
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 01:31

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I need a function read-number that would behave like (interactive "n");
that is, it would keep trying until a numeric value was typed.

Any suggestions?

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From: reingold@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Need read-number function
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