best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

[bruceg113355 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 5:32:32 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
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> > This works for me: mytuplestring.replace("0","")
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> > Your regex will also eliminate  non-leading zeros.


Your right, what was I thinking?