Remove integers in the beginning of a string in jquery

I have text in a table’s TD which may start with space or number or multiple spaces. I need to remove all the spaces and numbers until I hit a character. I need to do it in jQuery. I am trying to split the text based on the spaces and remove them. But not working.

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("table tr").each(function () {
        var leftText = $(this).find("td.leftLinesTD").text();
        var i = 0;
        leftText.split(" ").every(v => {
            if (v = '') {
              leftText.replace(leftText.split(" ")[i], '');
              i = i + 1;
              return true;
            }
            else { return false; }
        });
     });

>Solution :

This is more of a JavaScript & strings question than it is a jQuery question.

You would benefit from use of a regular expression:

let leftText = $(this).find("td.leftLinesTD").text();
leftText = leftText.replace(/^[\d\s]*/, '');

This regular expression says "from the start of the string (^), gather zero-or-more (*) instances of digits (\d) and whitespace (\s) and replace the matched substring with an empty string ('')".

BTW: use of var is discouraged these days. Use of let and const are more appropriate.