title: MVEL extracting a string from a string
body: <p>I have the strings "000134567 - AA - 2001" and "002134567 - AB - 2001" and I want to extract all the numbers before the " - AA". But I only want to return the numbers starting from the first non-zero number. For example, I would want "134567" or "2134567". </p>
  
  <p>Is there some function that would allow me to do this using MVEL? Any help is appreciated.</p>