regex to remove ordinals

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You need to use a look-behind assertion so that only st|nd|rd|th preceded by a [0-9] are matched, but the [0-9] isn’t included in the match. i.e.:

(?<=[0-9])(?:st|nd|rd|th)

I’ve linked to the perl-compatible syntax, but if you’re using posix, posix extended, vi or one of many other regex syntaxes you’ll need to look up the syntax.

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