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TRIM THE DIGITS INTO ONE

dunkindonut7777
8 - Asteroid

Hi I have a data here that I want to trim down the leading zeros in the left side:

 

Code:        Expected Code:

000              0

002              2

023              23

016              16

 

Can you help meout with this one pls?

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Chantelb
9 - Comet

Hi @dunkindonut7777 ,

 

You can use Trimleft and Regexmatch for when it is all zeros:

 

Chantelb_0-1634619992784.png

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @dunkindonut7777 

 

You can use ToNumber([Code:]) to trim all not-required zeros.

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1634625562373.png

 

Hope this helps : )

 

vsoni
Alteryx
Alteryx

this article goes through this:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/How-To-Remove-Leading-Zeros-From-a-...

 

TL;DR: use TrimLeft to remove '0' from the left of your fields.

 

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