Suppressing leading zeroes during mapping

Question

Dear All,
I am having one requirement in which i want to compress all the leading zeroes for the material no only eg 0000123450 shuld be converted into 123450.
Is there any standard function available which compresses the leading zeroes???
Waiting for your valuable response.
Regards,
N.Jain

Answer 1

Write a UDF like this ..
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
  System.out.println(args[0].replaceAll("^0*",""));
Also you can use XSLT for this.
Try the XPath function number($string) in your XSLT and see if it does what you want. Since it turns any XPath object into a number, the leading zeros  won't appear.
Use it ike this
<xsl:variable name="a">
         <xsl:call-template name="removeLeadingZeros">
             <xsl:with-param name="phone">
                 <xsl:value-of select="EVENT/ContactPhone"/>
             </xsl:with-param>
         </xsl:call-template>
     </xsl:variable>
<xsl:template name="removeLeadingZeros">
         <xsl:param name="phone"/>
         <xsl:message>
             <xsl:value-of select="$phone"/>
         </xsl:message>
         <xsl:choose>
             <xsl:when test="starts-with($phone,'0')">
                 <xsl:call-template name="removeLeadingZeros">
                     <xsl:with-param name="phone">
                         <xsl:value-of
select="substring-after($phone,'0' )"/>
                     </xsl:with-param>
                 </xsl:call-template>
             </xsl:when>
             <xsl:otherwise>
                 <xsl:value-of select="$phone"/>
             </xsl:otherwise>
         </xsl:choose>
     </xsl:template>
Regards
Aashish Sinha
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