PowerShell first index of a letter in a string

Question

I have a string which will have an unknown quantity of non-alphabetical characters. I would like to remove these from my string. I want everything to the right of the first occurrence of a letter.

eg

'3434 34^%43 346&*^& 8 645 Stuff' becomes 'Stuff'

'345$65556&5$&9MoreStuff' becomes 'MoreStuff'

'34*^$76$::^5{][][65And EvenMoreStuff 123! But ItBeganWithA Letter' becomes 'And EvenMoreStuff 123! But ItBeganWithA Letter'

Using PowerShell 5.1

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You could use the following regex to remove any leading non-letter characters:

'3434 34^%43 346&*^& 8 645 Stuff' -replace '^[^\p{L}]*'

Pattern describes:

^          # start of string
[^\p{L}]*  # 0 or more characters that are not letters (\p{L} == unicode category "letters")