How to get first character of string?

Question

I have a string, and I need to get its first character.

var x = \'somestring\';
alert(x[0]); //in ie7 returns undefined

How can I fix my co

Answer 1

Example of all method

First : string.charAt(index)

Return the caract at the index index

var str = "Stack overflow";

console.log(str.charAt(0));

Second : string.substring(start,length);

Return the substring in the string who start at the index start and stop after the length length

Here you only want the first caract so : start = 0 and length = 1

var str = "Stack overflow";

console.log(str.substring(0,1));

Alternative : string[index]

A string is an array of caract. So you can get the first caract like the first cell of an array.

Return the caract at the index index of the string

var str = "Stack overflow";

console.log(str[0]);