How to get first character of a string in JavaScript
In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to get the first character of a string in JavaScript.
Getting the first character
To get the first character of a string, we can use the charAt()
method by passing 0
as an argument in JavaScript.
Strings are the squence of characters, so the first character index of a string is
0
.
const str = "helicopter";
const firstCharacter = str.charAt(0);
console.log(firstCharacter); // "h"
Similarly, we can use square brackets []
syntax to get the first character of a string.
const str = "helicopter";
const firstCharacter = str[0];
console.log(firstCharacter); // "h"