removeing leading zeros in a text string (not a numeric field)

[Brian Henry]

Say I have a text string like

"0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
regular expression work here? sorry I haven't worked with regex's that much
and still need to get caught up on them :) if so how would you go about
doing that? thanks!

[Marina]

Re: removeing leading zeros in a text string (not a numeric field)

Check out the TrimStart method of the string class. You pass it a character
array of characters to remove - in this case, the array will have one
character, the "0".

"Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Say I have a text string like
>
> "0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
> regular expression work here? sorry I haven't worked with regex's that[/color]
much[color=blue]
> and still need to get caught up on them :) if so how would you go about
> doing that? thanks!
>
>[/color]

[Armin Zingler]

Re: removeing leading zeros in a text string (not a numeric field)

"Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> schrieb[color=blue]
> Say I have a text string like
>
> "0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would
> a regular expression work here? sorry I haven't worked with regex's
> that much and still need to get caught up on them :) if so how would
> you go about doing that? thanks![/color]

msgbox "0002323235-3434-3545".trimstart ("0"c)


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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: removeing leading zeros in a text string (not a numeric field)

* "Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> scripsit:[color=blue]
> "0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
> regular expression work here?[/color]

I would use this code:

\\\
Dim s As String = "000012"
MsgBox(s.TrimSt art("0"c))
///

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[Brian Henry]

Re: removeing leading zeros in a text string (not a numeric field)

thanks everyone, didn't realize you could trim characters like that


"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> * "Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> scripsit:[color=green]
> > "0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
> > regular expression work here?[/color]
>
> I would use this code:
>
> \\\
> Dim s As String = "000012"
> MsgBox(s.TrimSt art("0"c))
> ///
>
> --
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
> <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>[/color]