Deleting first character in field

[steveubert]

Hello

I'm running arcmap 10.4. I have 5k entries of 'FEC_IDCODE' with 01234 and I need the first 0 deleted. 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.

arcgis 10.0 - Delete first two letters from a string field - Geographic Information Systems Stack Ex... 

qgis - How to remove a certain number of digits from the front or end of an attribute field? - Geogr... 

Field Calculator- Delete last 3 text characters 

How to remove first character from every row of an attribute field 

https://community.esri.com/thread/21358 

[JoeBorgione · Accepted solution]

I just tried this and it worked:

Where all my FEC_ID fields had a leading 0....

[steveubert]

thank you

[JoeBorgione]

Happy to help-  would you mind checking my response as answered?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

done... and a big python check mark too ... sometimes they forget

[Anonymous User]

Perfect and simple! Adjusted to remove the first and last characters using the character number count

[DominicMarchionna]

Thank you! This worked perfect to remove leading two numbers in a field. 

[DavidCooper]

This was a great help to me, thank you so much!