Get the first integers in a string with JavaScript

Question

I have a string in a loop and for every loop, it is filled with texts the looks like this:

"123 hello everybody 4"
"4567 stuff is fun 67"
"12368 more stuff"

I only want to retrieve the first numbers up to the text in the string and I, of course, do not know the length.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If the number is at the start of the string:

("123 hello everybody 4").replace(/(^\d+)(.+$)/i,'$1'); //=> '123'

If it's somewhere in the string:

(" hello 123 everybody 4").replace( /(^.+)(\w\d+\w)(.+$)/i,'$2'); //=> '123'

And for a number between characters:

("hello123everybody 4").replace( /(^.+\D)(\d+)(\D.+$)/i,'$2'); //=> '123'

[addendum]

A regular expression to match all numbers in a string:

"4567 stuff is fun4you 67".match(/^\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g); //=> ["4567", "4", "67"]

You can map the resulting array to an array of Numbers:

"4567 stuff is fun4you 67"
  .match(/^\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g)
  .map(function (v) {return +v;}); //=> [4567, 4, 67]

Including floats:

"4567 stuff is fun4you 2.12 67"
  .match(/\d+\.\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g)
  .map(function (v) {return +v;}); //=> [4567, 4, 2.12, 67]

If the possibility exists that the string doesn't contain any number, use:

( "stuff is fun"
   .match(/\d+\.\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g) || [] )
   .map(function (v) {return +v;}); //=> []

So, to retrieve the start or end numbers of the string 4567 stuff is fun4you 2.12 67"

// start number
var startingNumber = ( "4567 stuff is fun4you 2.12 67"
  .match(/\d+\.\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g) || [] )
  .map(function (v) {return +v;}).shift(); //=> 4567

// end number
var endingNumber = ( "4567 stuff is fun4you 2.12 67"
  .match(/\d+\.\d+|\d+\b|\d+(?=\w)/g) || [] )
  .map(function (v) {return +v;}).pop(); //=> 67