title: XPATH - how to start parsing only at a numerical character
body: <p>I want to ignore any characters up until a numeric one as I am trying to grab a date from html webpages. Example code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div id="example"&gt;example text 4 December 2013&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I want to only grab the date "4 December 2013" and ignore the first bit of text "example text ", so effectively start parsing when a number is spotted.</p>
  
  <p>The length of text and words at the start of this string are unknown and can differ in size, the date will always be in this format and at the end of the tag.</p>
  
  <p>Any help greatly appreciated.</p>