JAVASCRIPT

how to get the first character of a string in javascript

let str = 'John Wick'
let firstChar = str.charAt(0) 
console.log(firstChar); // "J" 

get first word of string js

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

JavaScript - The first word of a string

const str = "What day of the week is it?";

// 1) the match() method:
str.match(/^w+s/)[0];// => What

// 2) the split() method:
str.split(' ')[0];  // => What

// 3) the slice() method:
str.slice(0, str.indexOf(' ')); // => What

get the first word of a string javascript

let sentence = "The big brown fox"
let word = sentence.split(" ")[0]

console.log(word) // The

js get first letter of string

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

get first word in javascript

let string = "Hello World"

let firstWord = typeof string.split(" ")[0] !== 'undefined' ? string.split(" ")[0] : null; 

js get words first letter

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

console.log(acronym)