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TrimLZ ( text )

Trims out all leading zeros from the supplied text; if the text includes only zeros then all are stripped out.

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Let([ C1 = PatternCount("0"; Left(text; 1)); Ca = C1 ]; If(Ca; TrimLZ(Middle(text; 1 + C1; Length(text) - Ca)); Text) ) /*Inspiration & much code from: Ray Cologon, NightWing Enterprises*/ Click to copy

For users who work with a lot of legacy data where zeros rather than spaces are used to fill out a field, this function makes it easy to remove the leading zeros, making life easier for the end users who do not want to see all of those leading zeroes.

 

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