Delete first character of a string in Javascript

Question

I want to delete the first character of a string, if the first character is a 0. The 0 can be there more than once.

Is there a simple function that checks the first

Answer 1

Did you try the substring function?

string = string.indexOf(0) == '0' ? string.substring(1) : string;

Here's a reference - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substring

And you can always do this for multiple 0s:

while(string.indexOf(0) == '0')
{
    string = string.substring(1);
}

Answer 2

You can do it with substring method:

let a = "My test string";

a = a.substring(1);

console.log(a); // y test string

Answer 3

From the Javascript implementation of trim() > that removes and leading or ending spaces from strings. Here is an altered implementation of the answer for this question.

var str = "0000one two three0000"; //TEST  
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'0'); //ANSWER

Original implementation for this on JS

string.trim():
if (!String.prototype.trim) {
 String.prototype.trim = function() {
  return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'');
 }
}

Answer 4

Use .charAt() and .slice().

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/kCpNQ/

var myString = "0String";

if( myString.charAt( 0 ) === '0' )
    myString = myString.slice( 1 );

If there could be several 0 characters at the beginning, you can change the if() to a while().

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/kCpNQ/1/

var myString = "0000String";

while( myString.charAt( 0 ) === '0' )
    myString = myString.slice( 1 );

Answer 5

var s = "0test";
if(s.substr(0,1) == "0") {
    s = s.substr(1);
}

For all 0s: http://jsfiddle.net/An4MY/

String.prototype.ltrim0 = function() {
 return this.replace(/^[0]+/,"");
}
var s = "0000test".ltrim0();

Answer 6

try

s.replace(/^0/,'')

console.log("0string  =>", "0string".replace(/^0/,'') );
console.log("00string =>", "00string".replace(/^0/,'') );
console.log("string00 =>", "string00".replace(/^0/,'') );