Removing Leading Zeros

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Question

What is the best way to remove leading zeros?  I have a field that is alphanumeric values (JONESBJ001, SMITH KC02, 0000012345, 0000555213.

Answer

If all of your data with leading zeros will always be some sort of numerical string (i.e. there will not be values like 000{character}) you could create a custom column using the following expression in the ElastiCube:

Here is the SQL code you can use:

CASE 

WHEN Left([Values],1) = '0' THEN ToString(ToInt([Values]))

ELSE [Values]

END