Name

charAt() — NN 2 IE J1 ECMA 1

Synopsis

charAt(positionIndex)

Returns a single character string of the character located at the zero-based index position passed as a parameter. Use this method instead of substring() when only one character from a known position is needed from a string.

Returned Value

A one-character string. In newer browser versions, an empty string is returned if the parameter value points to a character beyond the length of the string.

Parameters

positionIndex

Zero-based integer.

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