topic Re: Losing leading “0” Zeros when converting to integer from string in Talend Studio

Losing leading “0” Zeros when converting to integer from string

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2017 11:01:25 GMT

Hello,

When I am converting a String to an Integer, I am losing the leading zeros from my variable.
I tried this 'Integer.parseInt((row1.date.length()==5)?"0"+row1.date:row1.date ) ' but it didin't work

Exemple :
Input data : '012005'
In Output data I have : '12005'

Someone can help me please?
Thank you

Re: Losing leading “0” Zeros when converting to integer from string

vboppudi — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:18:43 GMT

Hi Maria,
As per my understanding, if you convert any value to number it will remove '0' zero in the begin. Because there is no value for '0' zero if it is before some number, if zero '0' present after number then it has some value.

Regards,
Veeru

Re: Losing leading “0” Zeros when converting to integer from string

cterenzi — Fri, 05 May 2017 15:42:30 GMT

There's no notion of leading zeroes when storing numbers in a numeric format. If you need to preserve zeroes throughout the job, it has to be a String. If this is only an issue when you output the data at the end, you can convert back to a String, padding the value with leading zeroes as needed.