Name
String.charAt( ) — get the nth character from a string
Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0, ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
string
.charAt(n
)
Arguments
-
n
The index of the character that should be returned from
string
.
Returns
The n
th character of
string
.
Description
String.charAt( )
returns the
n
th character of the string
string
. The first character of the string
is numbered 0. If n
is not between 0 and
string.length
-1, this method returns an
empty string. Note that JavaScript does not have a character data
type that is distinct from the string type, so the returned character
is a string of length 1.
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