Have a look at gsub:
> x <- "001-010-001-0"
> gsub("^0+", "", x)
[1] "1-010-001-0"
-Christos
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> i have a vector with values similar to the below text [1]
> 001-010-001-0
>
> I want to get rid of all leading zeroes. for example i want
> to change the values of the vector so that [1] 001-010-001-0
> becomes [1] 1-010-001-0.
>
> Another example
> [1]082-232-232-1 becomes [1] 82-232-232-1
>
> how do i do this?
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