如何在字符串中的第一个char之前删除N类型的值

Question

I have many string that can start as :

01. - ??:??:?? - My 'string'
01 00:00 - My string - Power of the string
1. - My string - I'm 0 but I need to stay here
??:?? - My string ?? Yes
01 My string. And so on...

and so on. So my idea would be to remove all these characters before the first real "char" in the alphabetik (I mean from a-A to z-Z). What's the best way to do this? Regular expression?

I mean, after the first alphabetik char, no special chars must be removed.

I'd like to do this on PHP and jQuery! Thanks

Answer 1

$string = "01. - ??:??:?? - My 'string'";

echo preg_replace("/^.*?([a-zA-Z])/", '\1', $string);

http://codepad.org/hL2sFeJ8

In JS

var string = "01. - ??:??:?? - My 'string'";

string = string.replace(/^.*?([a-zA-Z])/, '$1');