Thanks to everyone.
On 9/6/05, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent.
>
> Replacing trailing zeros looks like
>
> reverse(substr(reverse(x), indexnot(reverse(x), "0"),.))
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Jamie Griffin
>
> > To remove leading zeros from the string variable x without
> > looping, how
> > about:
> >
> > replace x=substr(x, indexnot(x, "0"), . )
>
> > >>> [email protected] 09/06/05 7:27 pm >>>
> > This is not really a splitting problem,
> > at least not sensu -split-.
> >
> > To remove leading zeros, I would do this:
> >
> > quietly {
> > count if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> > while `r(N)' {
> > replace myvar = substr(myvar,2,.) ///
> > if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> > count if substr(myvar,1,1) == "0"
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Any solutions without looping?
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > >>> Raphael Fraser
> >
> > I have a string variable of the type listed below:
> >
> > id
> > 0008
> > 0020
> > 016A
> > 0160C
> >
> > How do I remove the leading zeros from this variable? I tried using
> > the -split- command, but it removed both leading and trailing zeros.
> > The end result should look like this:
> >
> > id
> > 8
> > 20
> > 16A
> > 160C
>
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