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Removing leading zeroes in a character column

Can Regex be used to strip leading zeroes from values in a character column?  If so, please provide an example.  If not, is there another method?

When leading zeroes occur, the number of leading zeroes can vary.  There are values in this column that are non-numeric.

 

Thanks,

Lou

Re: Removing leading zeroes in a character column

Thanks!  That is what I needed.

Re: Removing leading zeroes in a character column

This works for me

 

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = New Table( "Example",
 Add Rows( 3 ),
 New Column( "test",
  Character,
  "Nominal",
  Set Values( {"000123", "0AB", "XYZ", "ABC0"} )
 )
);
dt << New Column("No Leading zeroes", character, <<FORMULA></FORMULA>

Re: Removing leading zeroes in a character column

I am not a regex coder, but here is a real simple example of how to do this using other JSL functions:

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = New Table( "Example",
 Add Rows( 3 ),
 New Column( "test",
  Character,
  "Nominal",
  Set Values( {"000123", "0AB", "XYZ"} )
 )
);

For each row(
 while(substr(:test,1,1)=="0",
  :test = substr(:test,2)
 )
);