>I would like a regex to replace leading zeroes in a number. For example, a
>ten-digit number string has 5 leading (leftmost) zeroes. I would like to
>replace each leading zero with a space, i.e. 5 leading zeroes with 5
leading
>spaces. I tried s/^0+/ /g but it replaced all leading zeroes with only one
>space character. How may I accomplish this?
You're close. You're getting hung up by perl's greediness when matching
characters. This should work:
s/^0/ /g
Joel
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