# Remove leading zeros from string to int

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-leading-zeros-from-string-to-int/82048>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** strings, parsing, missing-values\
**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/remove-leading-zeros-from-string-to-int/82048 "2022-06-01T10:48:11Z")\
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Getting an integer from a string is parsing, so you should use `parse`:

```julia
julia> parse(Int64, "001")
1

```

In your case you’d have to combine it with passmissing as shown, so:

```julia
julia> passmissing(parse).(Int64, ["001", "012", missing, "002"])
4-element Vector{Union{Missing, Int64}}:
  1
 12
   missing
  2

```

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