Another possible formula for returning only the digits is this one posted previously in another forum by Lars-Åke Aspelin...

=MID(SUMPRODUCT(--MID("01"&A1,SMALL((ROW($1:$300)-1)*ISNUMBER(-MID("01"&A1,ROW($1:$300),1)),ROW($1:$300))+1,1),10 ^(300-ROW($1:$300))),2,300)

This is an array formula and has to be confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER rather than just ENTER.

It has the following (known) limitations:

- The input string in cell A1 must be shorter than 300 characters

- There must be at most 14 digits in the input string.
(Following digits will be shown as zeroes.)

Maybe of no practical use, but it will also handle the following two cases correctly:

- a "0" as the first digit in the input will be shown correctly in the output

- an input without any digits at all will give the empty string as output (rather than 0).