get first 3 characters of string jquery code example

Example 1: jquery get first character of string

var header = $('.time'+col).text();
alert(header.charAt(0));

Example 2: 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"