Then, technically, the function is accurate: StripLZero He needs a function named StripLZeros
:^) m!ke -----Original Message----- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Trim leading zeros I just ran... <cfset myVal = '000000000009970656'> <cfoutput> <p>#reReplace(myVal,'^0','','ALL')#</p> </cfoutput> and it does indeed replace only the first 0, it needs "^0+" if you want to strip them all. The function doesn't do an recursion and only the first "0" is next to the start (^) of the string. -- Jay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:302443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

