Javascript正则表达式从单词的开头删除数字。

Question

I'm trying to clean up text and it's formatted like this:

1In the

12The answer

6अनाथ

Title

5-16These are

I want to remove any numbers and dashes anytime they are on the front of a word but am failing. This is close and works in the first two cases:

str.replace(/^[^A-Z]*/,"")

but when the language changes like the third case it removes everything.

The last case has a line break but this didn't work:

.replace(/^[^\r\n|\r|\n^A-Z]*/,"")

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If you only want replace decimal digits and hyphens then just include those in your character class:

str.replace(/^[\d-]*/,"")

If you'd also like to remove all whitespace (including line breaks), try this:

str.replace(/^[\d\s-]*/,"")

Answer 2

I think this will do:

str.replace(/^[-\d\s]*/,"")

Live code: http://regexr.com/38kkk

Explanation:

• - is literal dash. Note that if it is to be placed as a literal character inside [] , it should be placed right after [ .
• \\d stands for digits
• \\s stands for white space characters (spaces, tabs, new lines)