Leading "0" is dropping in transformation

I am transforming a string to a number (for an import in the next step of my flow), and have noticed that any numbers that begin with a "0" the transformation is dropping the "0".

For example: 0987654321 will become 987654321 after the transformation

Is there a simple handlebar to maintain the original value to pass downstream in the flow?

@daveguderian leave it as a string. JSON does not support leading zeros for number data types. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46345894/numbers-cannot-begin-with-a-zero-in-json

Thanks Tyler as always! I wasnt aware of that limitation!