Regex to get first number in string with other characters

Question

I\'m new to regular expressions, and was wondering how I could get only the first number in a string like 100 2011-10-20 14:28:55. In this case, I\'d want it to

Answer 1

/^[^\d]*(\d+)/

This will start at the beginning, skip any non-digits, and match the first sequence of digits it finds

EDIT: this Regex will match the first group of numbers, but, as pointed out in other answers, parseInt is a better solution if you know the number is at the beginning of the string