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

It really depends on how long the NVARCHAR is, as a few of the above (especially the ones that convert through IntXX) methods will not work for:

String s = "005780327584329067506780657065786378061754654532164953264952469215462934562914562194562149516249516294563219437859043758430587066748932647329814687194673219673294677438907385032758065763278963247982360675680570678407806473296472036454612945621946";

Something like this would

String s ="0000058757843950000120465875468465874567456745674000004000".TrimStart(new Char[] { '0' } );
// s = "58757843950000120465875468465874567456745674000004000"

Answer 2

Regex rx = new Regex(@"^0+(\d+)$");
rx.Replace("0001234", @"$1"); // => "1234"
rx.Replace("0001234000", @"$1"); // => "1234000"
rx.Replace("000", @"$1"); // => "0" (TrimStart will convert this to "")

// usage
var outString = rx.Replace(inputString, @"$1");