get first character of string js code example

Example 1: javascript get last character in string

var hello = "Hello World";
var lastCharOfHello=hello.slice(-1);//d

Example 2: 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 3: javascript get first character of string

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

Example 4: get the first word of a string javascript

let sentence = "The big brown fox"
let word = sentence.split(" ")[0]

console.log(word) // The

Example 5: cut string from string javascript

var ret = "data-123".replace('data-','');
console.log(ret);   //prints: 123