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: js get first 3 characters of string

const string = "0123456789";
console.log(string.slice(0, 2)); // "01"
console.log(string.slice(0, 8)); // "01234567"
console.log(string.slice(3, 7)); // "3456"

Example 4: js get first letter of string

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

Example 5: javascript how to get middle letters of a string

function extractMiddle(str) {

        var position;
        var length;

        if(str.length % 2 == 1) {
            position = str.length / 2;
            length = 1;
        } else {
            position = str.length / 2 - 1;
            length = 2;
        }

        return str.substring(position, position + length)
    }

    console.log(extractMiddle("handbananna"));