get the first 4 characters of a string javascript code example

Example 1: javascript get first 2 char

String.substring(0, 2);
//Return the first two characters of the string
//First parameter is the starting index, 0 corresponding to the first character
//Second parameter is the number of character to return

Example 2: javascript get first 10 characters of string

var str = "Hello world That is reallly neat!";
var res = str.substring(0, 5);//get first 5 chars

Example 3: substring javascript

var str = "Hello world!";
var res = str.substring(1, 4); //ell