Re: [xsl] Removing leading zeros

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nischal,

Try the XPath function number($string) in your XSLT and see if it does what 
you want. Since it turns any XPath object into a number, the leading zeros 
won't appear.

If you need your number to be a string again (and you need to force it: for 
most purposes it's unnecessary since XSLT will make the number a string 
when it's passed and a string argument is required), try 
string(number($string)). You won't get your leading zeros back.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:58 PM 1/24/2003, you wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a Java function which removes leading zeros
> from a given string value and returns me the number.
>
> Eg.
>
> 000125000 -- 125000
> 0012300  -- 12300
> 01234 -- 1234
>
> public static String removeLeadingZeros(String str)
>         {
>                 if (str == null)
>                 {
>                         return null;
>                 }
>                 char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
>                 int index = 0;
>                 for (; index < str.length(); index++)
>                 {
>                         if (chars[index] != '0')
>                         {
>                                 break;
>                         }
>                 }
>                 return (index == 0) ? str : str.substring(index);
>         }
>
> Can someone help me build something like this in XSL.
> I dont mean you to write for the script, but atleast
> help me in taking thru what I have to do to get to
> this.
>
> Appreciate your time.
>
> Thanks
> Nischal
>
>
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