Convert string with prepended 0s to Int in Scala

Question

I'm looking for a simple solution to convert a String in Scala with prepended 0s into an Integer. The values were given 0s when converted to Strings to all have the same length, but I would like a simple solution to convert them back.

Sample data:

00001234
00123456
12345678

Sample output:

1234
123456
12345678

I have tried "number".toInt, but I receive a java.lang.NumberFormatException for this.

Any simple solutions?

Answer 1

Try

"00001234".dropWhile(_ == '0').toInt

Just "00001234".toInt seems to work as well.