Re: Removing leading zeros

Hi Wendell 

Thanks for your time. Your solution works perfect to
just remove all the zeros in the given string. 

The one you mentioned does the following

000125000 -- 125
0012300  -- 123
01234 -- 1234

But I am looking at something which would remove
preceding zeros and retain the zeros after the no.

Eg.
000125000 -- 125000
0012300  -- 12300
01234 -- 1234

Thanks
Nischal

--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nischal,
> 
> Try the XPath function number($string) in your XSLT
> and see if it does what 
> you want. Since it turns any XPath object into a
> number, the leading zeros 
> won't appear.
> 
> If you need your number to be a string again (and
> you need to force it: for 
> most purposes it's unnecessary since XSLT will make
> the number a string 
> when it's passed and a string argument is required),
> try 
> string(number($string)). You won't get your leading
> zeros back.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 06:58 PM 1/24/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi All
> >
> >I have a Java function which removes leading zeros
> >from a given string value and returns me the
> number.
> >
> >Eg.
> >
> >000125000 -- 125000
> >0012300  -- 12300
> >01234 -- 1234
> >
> >public static String removeLeadingZeros(String str)
> >         {
> >                 if (str == null)
> >                 {
> >                         return null;
> >                 }
> >                 char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
> >                 int index = 0;
> >                 for (; index < str.length();
> index++)
> >                 {
> >                         if (chars[index] != '0')
> >                         {
> >                                 break;
> >                         }
> >                 }
> >                 return (index == 0) ? str :
> str.substring(index);
> >         }
> >
> >Can someone help me build something like this in
> XSL.
> >I dont mean you to write for the script, but
> atleast
> >help me in taking thru what I have to do to get to
> >this.
> >
> >Appreciate your time.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Nischal
> >
> >
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