Trimming leading zero (0)

CripZZ23

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
I have a filed with data similar to the following:

AA-01
AA-02
AA-02 (01)
AA-10
AA-10 (01)
AA-10 (12)

Essentially it is always two letters followed by a - then a number (1 or 2 digits, but possibly zero padded to the left), and optionally another 1 to 2 digits in ( ) that is also potentially zero padded to the left.

I would like to remove the leading zeros so that they look like the right column below:
AA-01 AA-1
AA-02 AA-2
AA-02 (01) AA-2 (1)
AA-10 AA-10
AA-10 (01) AA-10 (1)
AA-10 (12) AA-10 (12)

I'm struggling - any help?
 

Excel Facts

Why are there 1,048,576 rows in Excel?
The Excel team increased the size of the grid in 2007. There are 2^20 rows and 2^14 columns for a total of 17 billion cells.
Assuming your cell values are in A1:A6, you could do something like this:

Excel Formula:
=LET(cellValues,A1:A6,TRIM(TEXTSPLIT(cellValues,"-")&"-"&LET(firstNumbers,TEXTSPLIT(TEXTAFTER(cellValues,"-")," "),IF(LEFT(firstNumbers,1)="0",RIGHT(firstNumbers,1),firstNumbers))&" "&LET(lastNumbers,IFNA(TEXTAFTER(cellValues," "),""),IF(LEFT(lastNumbers,2)="(0","("&RIGHT(lastNumbers,2),lastNumbers))))

But Rorys is way easier and more efficient.
 
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