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

This Regex let you avoid wrong result with digits which consits only from zeroes "0000" and work on digits of any length:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

/*
00123 => 123
00000 => 0
00000a => 0a
00001a => 1a
00001a => 1a
0000132423423424565443546546356546454654633333a => 132423423424565443546546356546454654633333a
*/

Regex removeLeadingZeroesReg = new Regex(@"^0+(?=\d)");
var strs = new string[]
{
    "00123",
    "00000",
    "00000a",
    "00001a",
    "00001a",
    "0000132423423424565443546546356546454654633333a",
};
foreach (string str in strs)
{
    Debug.Print(string.Format("{0} => {1}", str, removeLeadingZeroesReg.Replace(str, "")));
}

And this regex will remove leading zeroes anywhere inside string:

new Regex(@"(? "123432 d=0 p=2 3?574 m=600"