From: Tomaso Tosolini <tomaso.tosolini@...>
Date: 2007-12-29T22:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: trimming leading zeros

Dipesh Batheja wrote:

> Is there any function in ruby which allows you to trim leading zeros (or
> any specific character) from a string. Or if there is some reg
> expression that i can use?

Hi
if you have string expressions like

s = 0{1,*}[1-9]* (some number with leading zeros)

perhaps the must obvious method is

s.to_i.to_s

:)

but this isn't genralizable to other kind of leading characters,
for them a regexp may be better

Tom