Description

The charAt() method returns the character at the specified index in a string.

The index of the first character is 0, and the index of the last character in a string called "txt", is txt.length-1.

This method has the form:

string.charAt(index)

Parameter	Description
index	(required) An integer between 0 and string.length-1

Examples

The following example shows the basic use of this method.

<script>
  var s = "Hello from JavaScript";
  document.write("First char: " + s.charAt(0));
  document.write("<br />");
  document.write("Last char: " + s.charAt(s.length-1));
</script>

This produces the following result:

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