remove 0s

[ovince]

I posted this message to awk forum but other solutions are accepted too.

Hi

Does anybody have an idea how to remove leading zeros from this data ie. to transform this


HD000245
HD001358
HD020400
HD000093
HD000007
........

to

HD245
HD1358
HD20400
HD93
HD7
.......

thanks
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[feherke]

Hi

sed 's/HD0\+/HD/' /input/file

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awk '{sub(/HD0+/,"HD")}1' /input/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

sed 's!^\(..\)0*!\1!' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

while read s; do echo "HD${s/HD+(0)/}"; done < /input/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[sbrews]

Slightly off topic - but related...

I saw this question over in the AWK forum earlier today. Now, however, it appears to be gone. Where did it go?

 

[PHV]

Probably Red Flag'ed as crosspost.