topic Re: Deleting first character in field in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77725#M2722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This was a great help to me, thank you so much!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:42:02 GMT DavidCooper 2018-07-30T13:42:02Z Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77720#M2717 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello</P><P></P><P>I'm running arcmap 10.4. I have 5k entries of 'FEC_IDCODE' with 01234 and I need the first 0 deleted.&nbsp;I have tried to google search and edit various scripts to delete the first letter of a text field. I've tried the codes and advice from the listed websites. All I've gotten is error codes with each try. What am I doing wrong.</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/54257/delete-first-two-letters-from-a-string-field" title="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/54257/delete-first-two-letters-from-a-string-field">arcgis 10.0 - Delete first two letters from a string field - Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange</A>&nbsp;</P><P><A class="link-titled" href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/144477/how-to-remove-a-certain-number-of-digits-from-the-front-or-end-of-an-attribute-f" title="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/144477/how-to-remove-a-certain-number-of-digits-from-the-front-or-end-of-an-attribute-f">qgis - How to remove a certain number of digits from the front or end of an attribute field? - Geographic Information Sy…</A>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/38265">Field Calculator- Delete last 3 text characters</A>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/101773">How to remove first character from every row of an attribute field</A>&nbsp;</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/thread/21358">https://community.esri.com/thread/21358</A>&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:31:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77720#M2717 steveubert 2016-08-25T15:31:54Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77721#M2718 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I just tried this and it worked:</P><P></P><P><IMG class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/217679_pastedImage_1.png" /></P><P></P><P>Where all my FEC_ID fields had a leading 0....</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:51:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77721#M2718 JoeBorgione 2016-08-25T15:51:57Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77722#M2719 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>thank you</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:00:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77722#M2719 steveubert 2016-08-25T16:00:44Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77723#M2720 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Happy to help-&nbsp; would you mind checking my response as answered?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:16:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77723#M2720 JoeBorgione 2016-08-25T16:16:23Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77724#M2721 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><IMG src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/emoticons/wink.png" />done... and a big python check mark too ... sometimes they forget</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:35:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77724#M2721 DanPatterson_Retired 2016-08-25T16:35:04Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77725#M2722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This was a great help to me, thank you so much!</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:42:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/77725#M2722 DavidCooper 2018-07-30T13:42:02Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/1097385#M25820 <P>Perfect and simple! Adjusted to remove the first and last characters using the character number count</P> Fri, 10 Sep 2021 22:17:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/1097385#M25820 Anonymous User 2021-09-10T22:17:59Z Re: Deleting first character in field https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/1123906#M26038 <P>Thank you! This worked perfect to remove leading two numbers in a field.&nbsp;</P> Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:19:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/deleting-first-character-in-field/m-p/1123906#M26038 DominicMarchionna 2021-12-08T17:19:47Z