Eliminate Leading Zeros

[Beebs]

If I have the following string "00038975" how can I iterate through
the characters and return all but the leading zeros? I need "38975"
to be returned from the original string.

Thanks

 

[Daniel Moth]

You could use the Chars property (and then Remove or Substring etc).
Generally you should be looking at the String methods:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../cpref/html/frlrfsystemstringmemberstopic.asp

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Use TrimStart

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...html/frlrfsystemstringclasstrimstarttopic.asp

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[Sergey Bogdanov]

If string contains only digits then solution could be also:

string str = "00038975";
str = Int32.Parse(str).ToString();

Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com

 

[Shannon Lloyd]

If I have the following string "00038975" how can I iterate through
the characters and return all but the leading zeros? I need "38975"
to be returned from the original string.

Thanks

while (theString.StartsWith("0"))
theString = theString.SubString(1);

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

This is the best one. The right one would be to use Regular Expressions <g>

 

[Sergey Bogdanov]

Yep!

s = Regex.Replace(s, "^0*", "");

or

while (s.StartsWith("0")) s = s.Substring(1);



Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com

 

[Daniel Moth]

The fastest one is using directly the Chars property. <famous last words>

Cheers
Daniel