How to remove leading zeros using C#

Question

How to remove leading zeros in strings using C#?

For example in the following numbers, I would like to remove all the leading zeros.

0001234
00000012         


        

Answer 1

TryParse works if your number is less than Int32.MaxValue. This also gives you the opportunity to handle badly formatted strings. Works the same for Int64.MaxValue and Int64.TryParse.

int number;
if(Int32.TryParse(nvarchar, out number))
{
   // etc...
   number.ToString();
}