Req Approval Question

The variable RQH_REQ_NUMBER contains a leading zero. Is there a way to eliminate this leading zero when we pass this variable in our approval email?

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unknown

There is a delivered function to trim leading zeros.

russel-cornelson

The delivered function trimLeadingZeros(RQH_REQ_NUMBER) is what you are looking for; it returns a string so make sure you are assigning it to a string variable.

NOTE: You should use this function to trim leading zeros off strings especially if you intend to convert it to an integer. The danger of assigning a string to an integer in javascript is that if the string starts with a zero and does not contain an 8 or 9 is that javascript would convert this to a base 8 (octal) number.

nathan-taylor

Got it. Thanks!

unknown

To add to Russel's comment, if you call the following javascript function and specify a radix it will cast a Numeric String to a Number (but not an octal number)

parseInt('000012345', 10)

the second parameter sets the radix to use to 10 in order to do the conversion. (ref: www.w3schools.com/.../jsref_parseInt.asp)

unknown

You can use variable=parseFloat(variable) as well

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