I have the following code in KornShell

FAILURE=1
SUCCESS=0

isNumeric(){

    if [ -n "$1" ]; then
        case $1 in
            *[!0-9]* | "")  return $FAILURE;
                       * )  return $SUCCESS;
        esac;
    else
        return $FAILURE;
    fi;
}

#...
FILE_EXT=${FILE#*.}

if [ isNumeric ${FILE_EXT} ]; then
    echo "Numbered file."
fi
#...

In some cases the file name not have an extension, and this causes the FILE_EXT variable to be empty, which causes the following error: ./script[37]: test: 0403-004 Specify a parameter with this command. How should I be calling this function so that I do not get this error?