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How do I left trim leading zeros from alphanumeric string?

anthony123
8 - Asteroid

Hi I tried using Regex tool , but that removed all zeros in my string. Here are examples of fields that I would like all leading zeros trimmed. The difficult part is that there's not a whole lot of consistency across these alphanumeric strings:

 

000000075771
000EPTOS CS
00000004610
000000TESO
000000084440

 

I would like these results:

 

75771

EPTOS CS

4610

TESO

84440

 

Can anyone help with this? Thanks!

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NicoleJohnson
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Use the TrimLeft formula!

 

TrimLeft([Field1],"0") should do the trick...

 

Cheers,

NJ

anthony123
8 - Asteroid

Thanks! Not sure why it didn't work the first time.

adrilarotta
8 - Asteroid

Works perfectly, thank U

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