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]

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 much and still need to get caught up on them :) if so how would you go about
doing that? thanks!

[Armin Zingler]

"Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> schrieb

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!

msgbox "0002323235-3434-3545".trimstart("0"c)
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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> scripsit:

"0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
regular expression work here?

I would use this code:

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

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[Brian Henry]

thanks everyone, didn't realize you could trim characters like that
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* "Brian Henry" <brianiup[nospam]@adelphia.net> scripsit:

"0002323235-3434-3545" and I want to remove the leading zeros, would a
regular expression work here?

I would use this code:

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

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>