Am doing data conversions with VFP 9.

Need to strip leading zero (or zeros) from a character field (and ONLY leading zeros), then convert to a numeric.

VAL('00203') returns 23 instead of the desired 203
VAL('2098') returns 298 instead of the desired 2098
VAL('0298') returns the desired 298 ...

Can't help thinking that I am missing something, somewhere.

Thoughts much appreciated.

Best,

Harold ...