Q: Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:36:35PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote

>     Or, if there can only be a single leading zero (as often happens
>     when manipulating dates):
> 
> echo $(( ${a#0} + ${b#0} ))

  I need something generic that can handle multiple leading zeros.  This
works with all sorts of zero-padded data.

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