check first character of string javascript code example

Example 1: how to get the first character of a string in javascript

let str = 'John Wick'
let firstChar = str.charAt(0) 
console.log(firstChar); // "J"

Example 2: javascript get first character of string

var str="Hello Folks!"
var firstStringChar = str.charAt(0); //H

Example 3: get first word of string js

let myStr = "Hello World"
let firstWord = myStr.split(" ")[0]

Example 4: js get first letter of string

var x = 'some string';
alert(x.charAt(0)); // alerts 's'

Example 5: javascript charat

/*
charAt() method
This method takes in a string and an index as input
and returns the character at that position in the specified string
*/

myString = "Hello World!";

console.log(myString.charAt(0)); // outputs "H"
console.log(myString.charAt(5)); // outputs " "
console.log(myString.charAt(8)); // outputs "r"
// If the specified index is bigger or equal to the length of the string,
// the output will be "".
console.log(myString.charAt(23)); // outputs ""