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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help deleting leading zeros in a file Post 302856561 by kcpoole on Tuesday 24th of September 2013 08:26:31 AM
Old 09-24-2013
Sorry for that and thanks
Yes i would like the output without the leading zeros as per this
Code:
$ awk '{$1+=0}1' file

Is there a way to do it using string processing rather than calling awk?
Reason being as the section of the file is only a selection from a much larger line that is processed as part of a much larger string. The rest of the code pulls out the numbers and then I need to stip the leading zeros before putting them in an array.

I only included the extracted part to avoid confusion with the rest of the code.

Ken
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-24-2013 at 03:08 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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excel::template::container::keepleadingzeros

Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)	User Contributed Perl Documentation	 Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)

NAME

       Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros - Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros

PURPOSE

       To set the keep_leading_zeros flag for the surrounding worksheet or any worksheets that might be contained within this node.

NODE NAME

       KEEP_LEADING_ZEROS

INHERITANCE

       CONTAINER

ATTRIBUTES

       None

CHILDREN

       None

EFFECTS

       Alters how leading zeros are interpreted by Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.

DEPENDENCIES

       None

USAGE

	 <worksheet>
	   ... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
	   <keep_leading_zeros>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </keep_leading_zeros>
	   ... Cells here will NOT have leading-zeros preserved
	 </worksheet>

	 <keep_leading_zeros>
	   <worksheet>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </worksheet>
	   <worksheet>
	     ... Cells here will have leading-zeros preserved
	   </worksheet>
	 </keep_leading_zeros>

AUTHOR

       Rob Kinyon (rob.kinyon@gmail.com)

SEE ALSO

       CELL, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel

perl v5.14.2							    2010-06-17			 Excel::Template::Container::KeepLeadingZeros(3pm)
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