How to get rid of leading date zero if present.

Hi,

I am trying to get rid of a dates leading zero (its a string, not an integer)

theBigDay is the variable it is originally stored in,

I want to have a subroutine to get rid of the leading zero if it occurs.

01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09 would get the leading zero chopped,
10,11,12 would remain untouched.

Any pointers in the right direction would help alot.

Thanks for taking a look,

Jeff

Hi,

easiest solution


set a to "01"
set b to a as integer as text

Thanks Stefan.

Up late tonight. That was very helpful.

Thank you very much,

Jeff

In addition to Stefan’s neat use of coercion to solve your problem, AppleScript can do unit conversions as well:


set L to 23 as centimeters as inches as number --> 9.055118110236

set D to 15 as feet as yards as number -->  5.0

set I to 39.371 as inches as meters as number --> 1.0000234

set T to 15 as degrees Celsius as degrees Fahrenheit as number --> 59.0

set A to 66 as liters as gallons as number --> 17.435354460756

set W to 178 as pounds as kilograms as number --> 80.7394472

set S to 62 as miles as kilometers as number --> 99.779328