Input field value - remove leading zeros

Question

I have a textbox in Javascript. When I enter \'0000.00\' in the textbox, I want to know how to convert that to only having one leading zero, such as \'0.0

Answer 1

More simplified solution is as below. Check this out!

var resultString = document.getElementById("theTextBoxInQuestion")
                           .value
                           .replace(/^[0]+/g,"");