get first letter from 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: get first word of string js

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

Example 4: 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)