get first word 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: get first word of string js

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

Example 3: js get first letter of string

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

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: js get words first letter

var str = "Java Script Object Notation";
var matches = str.match(/\b(\w)/g); // ['J','S','O','N']
var acronym = matches.join(''); // JSON

console.log(acronym)