Wildcard in SP parameter

I have field called UnitNumber, consisting of a letter suffix and up to 7 digit numerical sequence. Example: G0008591
I'm trying to use wildcard in my procedure to account for a user sending the prefix and dropping leading zeros. User may type G8591
(a.UnitNumber
like
'%'+@unit
+'%')
I'm calling this procedure using SSRS. What am I missing?
.samuel

Try
REPLACE(a.UnitNumber,'0','') like '%'+@unit +'%')
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