The String class has a replaceFirst() method, look into it.

Hi Jas,

Thank you very much for the earliest reply on this post. Here not always i would have a variable format type like A010. It would be I9 or D06 or F05.10.

If i always have A010 then i can use replacefirst method.

Since i can substitue A10 with that.

I just need to strip off the first occurance of zero in a string that's it. i don't know what needs to be done for a stipping off zero. whether i can give like "" in the place of zero.

I don't see why replaceFirst wouldn't work for this. Have it find "0" and replace it with nothing. Have you tried doing what you suspect will work?

Hi Jas and Vernon thanks a lot. I used replaceFirst and got the result.

I was thinking of using indexOf and then checking the value is "0" or not and then replacing. But this is straight.

public String getusageFormat()
{
removeLeadingZeros(usageFormat);
String temps1;
temps1 = usageFormat.replaceFirst("0","");
return temps1;

}
public String removeLeadingZeros(String str)
{
if (str == null)
{
return null;
}
char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
int index = 0;
for (; index < str.length(); index++)
{
if (chars[index] != '0')
{
break;
}
}
return (index == 0) ? str : str.substring(index);
}

Hi,

I managed to strip off the leading zeroes and the first occurance using replaceFirst.

for example if the string is 00A10 or A010 it would strip off 00 before A and 0 between A and 1. But what happens if i have 2 or 3 zeroes in between A and 1.
Whether i can use chararray, chck for the indexes having zero and strip off?

replaceFirst uses a regex, so you could form a regex such as 0+ which means one or more occurrences of zeroes and then have them replaced by "".