[R] Truncating leading zeros in strings

[Martyn Byng]

Hi,

Think I might be misunderstanding what you want, because ...

> t = "0000123"
> as.integer(t)
[1] 123


anyway

> t = "0000123"
> substr(t,regexpr("[^0]",t),nchar(t))
[1] "123"

seems to trim the leading 0's

Martyn

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Subject: [R] Truncating leading zeros in strings


I am new to R.  I thing this will be simple, but I don't yet know my way

around.

I am generating character strings from the system clock that represent 
integers, and I want to convert them to integer values.  Strtoi works 
well, except when there are leading zeros on the string.  Could anyone 
suggest a way to remove those leading zeros?

Thanks

Paul






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