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How to remove leading zeros from a numeric value?

pradeepkumarg
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I have a field on which I am doing ltrim function to remove the leading 0's


eval fieldA = ltrim(fieldA ,"0")

000000104020471991 is being converted to 1.0402e+11. 

How can I get just 104020471991 ?

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icyfeverr
Path Finder

try this:

eval fieldA=ltrim(tostring(fieldA),"0")

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icyfeverr
Path Finder

try this:

eval fieldA=ltrim(tostring(fieldA),"0")

pradeepkumarg
Influencer

Thank you.. overlooked tostring() function 🙂

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