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Removing leading zeros from a column

user518071Feb 22 2010 — edited Feb 22 2010
Hi,
I want to remove leading zeros from a varchar column which will store alpha numeric characters.

Here's the scenario:
0 ->0
00 ->0
000 ->0

If I use ltrim(column,'0') it returns null


Thanks,
Mahender.

Edited by: user518071 on Feb 22, 2010 12:00 PM
This post has been answered by MichaelS on Feb 22 2010
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