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Use rex to remove leading zeros

bablucho
Path Finder

Regex:

Printed\s\s\s\s.(.+)

Test String:
Printed : 001727

Output:
1. 001727

I want the output to display without the leading zeros. so as it appears: 1727

Can anybody help?

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vnravikumar
Champion

Try this

| makeresults 
| eval test=0000123456000001200 
| rex field="test" mode=sed "s/(^0*)//1"

Result: 123456000001200

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cpetterborg
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

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Thanks!

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saurabhkharkar
Path Finder
if you convert the string to integer, it will get rid of the leading zeros

| makeresults
| eval String="00147"
| eval StringInt = tonumber(String)
| table String StringInt

Else if you want to keep it as a string, you can try using this regex
| makeresults
| eval String="00147"
|rex field=String "(?<Output>[^0+]\S+)" 
| table String Output

cpetterborg
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Probably something like:

Printed\D+0*(\d+)

should work. \D+ is all non-digits, followed by zero or more 0's, then it puts the other digits is the capture group.

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Vijeta
Influencer

You can use ltrim function

|makeresults| eval x="001727"|eval x= ltrim(tostring(x),"0")
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wenthold
Communicator

The rex string I'd use:

Printed[\s:]+[0]*(?<your_field>[0-9]+)
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