Hi boys and girls. Sorry to be lazy but you can probably do this and I can't.

Have a text file, like this:

Code:
1.08
2.85
1.8
0.2
etc.
In fact it is a table of universal constants, taken from:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constant...e/allascii.txt

How remove any initial zeros?

In fact I want to check to see if the first, non zero, digit of each number obeys Benford's law:
http://www.rexswain.com/benford.html so need to count up the number of constants whose first non zero digit is a 1, and whose first ditto digit is a 2, etc. and compare their frequency. Anybody charitable enough to tell me how to do that?

Any help greatly appreciated.