>You can use ltrim for this
>
>

>LOCAL laTest(4)
>
>laTest[1]	= "0002567890"
>laTest[2]	= "0000027890"
>laTest[3]	= "00002678-1"
>laTest[4]	= "0000000002"
>
>FOR i = 1 TO ALEN(laTest, 1)
>	? LTRIM(laTest[i], 1, "0")
>NEXT i
>

>
>Although I am not sure if the extra parameter(s) were available in VFP 8

Unfortunately, they aren't.