Delete initial digits at the beginning of a string

[etrader]

I want to delete (likely by preg_match) the initial digits at the beginning of a string, but no alter to alphabetical characters. The string can contain digit or not. For example:

 

$string="1-words are here";

$string=everything is word";

 

I want to delete if there is any digits at the beginning of my string.

 

Thanks

[AyKay47]

if there are no other digits in the string except the ones that you would like to omit...you can use str_replace

 

$subject = "1-words are here";
$search = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);
str_replace($search, '', $subject);

[etrader]

That is my problem. There are other digits within the string, and I need to delete only the initial digits.

[Muddy_Funster]

You could put a preg_match into substr() loop to check from the initial character through the word untill the first non match, then substr() the portion of the string to the right of the loop count marker...(does that make any sense?)

[AyKay47]

perhaps use preg_match then

\

$subject = 1234343-words are here;
$pattern = '~[0-9-]*(.+)~';
preg_match($pattern, $subject, $matches);
foreach($matches as $match){
      print "$match <br />";
}