JAVASCRIPT

remove first 3 characters from string javascript

var string = "abcd";
console.log(string.substring(3)); //"d"

javascript remove first character from string

let str = " hello";
str = str.substring(1);

remove first char javascript

let str = 'Hello';
 
str = str.substring(1);
console.log(str);
 
/*
    Output: ello
*/

Javascript remove first character from string

var s1 = "foobar";
var s2 = s1.substring(1);
alert(s2); // shows "oobar"

how to remove first character from string in javascript

str = str.substring(1);

js remove first character from string

// Return a word without the first character
function newWord(str) {
	return str.replace(str[0],"");
	// or: return str.slice(1);
	// or: return str.substring(1);
}

console.log(newWord("apple"));	// "pple"   
console.log(newWord("cherry"));	// "herry"  

javascript remove first character from string

let str = 'ass';

str = str.split(''); // (3) ["a", "s", "s"]
str.shift(); // (2) ["s", "s"]
str = str.join(''); // "ss"

javascript remove first character from string

let str = 'ss';

str = new RegExp('^.(.*)').exec(str)[1]; // "s"

javascript remove first character from string

let str = 's';

str = (function f(s) { // don't use on large strings
  		return s.length<=1?'':f(s.slice(0, -1))+s[s.length-1]
	})(str); // ""