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Thank You. That meets my requirement.
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41532123-1"> String card = &quot;00001234000301234&quot;; 
 for (int i=0; i&lt;card.length(); i++) {
 while (card.substring(i, i+1).equals(&quot;0&quot;)) i++; 
 card = card.substring(i); break; 
 }
 System.out.println(card);
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I have some card number that gets extracted from the record as a fixed size string. The string has always all numbers. 
 
Like for example, my record is: 
 
PN02210220063980223161335590100000000000001234000301234000300000000000000000000000000000000000900 
 
and I always extract the string from between the &nbsp;fixed positions. That gives me &quot;00001234000301234&quot; 
 
What is the best API to use to trim the leading zeros and get only &quot;1234000301234&quot;. The number of 0s in leading can very in counts anywhere from none to 6. 
 
I see some posting 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-28936917-1">s.replaceFirst(&quot;^0+(?!$)&quot;, &quot;&quot;)
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or 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-28936917-2">String card = &quot;00001234000301234&quot;;// 
card = Integer.valueOf(card).toString();
System.out.println(card);
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But what is the best approach?
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I have some card number that gets extracted from the record as a fixed size string. The string has always all numbers. 

Like for example, my record is:

PN02210220063980223161335590100000000000001234000301234000300000000000000000000000000000000000900

and I always extract the string from between the  fixed positions. That gives me "00001234000301234"

What is the best API to use to trim the leading zeros and get only "1234000301234". The number of 0s in leading can very in counts anywhere from none to 6.

I see some posting 
(CODE)

or 
(CODE)

But what is the best approach?

How to remove leading 0s from String

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