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JavaScript - get first character of string
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In this short article, we would like to show you how to get the first character of a string in JavaScript.
Below example shows the use of .substring() method which returns the part of a string between the 0 and 1 indexes.
Runnable example:
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var text = '123';2
var substring = text.substring(0,1);3
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console.log("text: " + text); // 1235
console.log("substring: " + substring); // 1In the second example, we can see the result when we want to get a substring from a string in various cases (like string shorter than the number of characters we want to get or an empty string).
Runnable example:
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// true means string is empty2
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console.log( "".substring(0, 1) === "" ); // empty4
console.log( "1".substring(0, 1) ); // 15
console.log( "12".substring(0, 1) ); // 16
console.log( "123".substring(0, 1) ); // 1Note:
Don't usesubstr()because it's a non-standard method.
