Olivier Wirz wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hello,
> How can I suppress the leading zeroes, except one when all positions are 0;
> for example:
>
> 000015 will be 15
> 000000 will be 0
Just use the "numbers" in a numeric context:
$ perl -le'
for ( "000000", "000015" ) {
print "String: ", $_;
print "Number: ", $_ + 0;
}
'
String: 000000
Number: 0
String: 000015
Number: 15
John
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