Hi,

I have a character string as below:

SE7130000000001201212345

I then do the following

? SUBSTR("SE7130000000001201212345",6,19)

which gives me

0000000001201212345

How can I remove the preceeding zeros with out deleting the zeros after the first number? Bear in mind the first number is not always in the same position.

What I want is:

1201212345

Thanks,

Ger