Date:         Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:56:10 -0400
Reply-To:     Andrew Kramer <akramer@CERNER.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andrew Kramer <akramer@CERNER.COM>
Subject:      Strip leading zeros

I inherited a file that has an undesirable format for the patient ID
("PTID"). In essence PTID was derived from a numeric variable and
reformatted as $6. Unfortunately leading zeros were added to fill out the
variable. I would like to strip away the leading zeros and leave the rest
of the value. Here's some examples of what I'd like to do:

PTID    newPTID
000012  12
020093  20093
004000  4000

I'm using version 9.1.3.

Thanks,
Andrew Kramer