How to remove all leading zeroes in a string

Question

If I have a string

00020300504
00000234892839
000239074

how can I get rid of the leading zeroes so that I will only have this

Answer 1

Similar to another suggestion, except will not obliterate actual zero:

if (ltrim($str, '0') != '') {
    $str = ltrim($str, '0');
} else {
    $str = '0';
}

Or as was suggested (as of PHP 5.3), shorthand ternary operator can be used:

$str = ltrim($str, '0') ?: '0';