The || operator is “concatenate” – it joins together the two strings of its operands. From http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html For padding, the seemingly-cheater way I’ve used is to start with your target string, say ‘0000’, concatenate ‘0000423’, then substr(result, -4, 4) for ‘0423’. Update: Looks like there is no native implementation of “lpad” or “rpad” in SQLite, … Read more
More simplified solution is as below. Check this out! var resultString = document.getElementById(“theTextBoxInQuestion”) .value .replace(/^[0]+/g,””);
Leading 0 on a numerical literal indicates that an octal integer is the intention, unless the second digit is 8 or 9. In that case, the leading 0 is ignored. Because octal numeric literals must be integers, 02.5 is erroneous. This behavior was logged as a bug in Firefox in 2014, but because there’s so … Read more
What about a basic your_string.strip(“0”) to remove both trailing and leading zeros ? If you’re only interested in removing trailing zeros, use .rstrip instead (and .lstrip for only the leading ones). More info in the doc. You could use some list comprehension to get the sequences you want like so: trailing_removed = [s.rstrip(“0”) for s … Read more
The modern way The new modern way to do this is to use toLocaleDateString, because it allows you not only to format a date with proper localization, but even to pass format options to achieve the desired result: const date = new Date(2018, 2, 1) const result = date.toLocaleDateString(“en-GB”, { // you can use undefined … Read more