How to check if character is a letter in Javascript?

Question

I am extracting a character in a Javascript string with:

var first = str.charAt(0);

and I would like to check whether it is a letter. Stran

Answer 1

I`m posting here because I didn't want to post a new question. Assuming there aren't any single character declarations in the code, you can eval() the character to cause an error and check the type of the character. Something like:

function testForLetter(character) {
  try {
    //Variable declarations can't start with digits or operators
    //If no error is thrown check for dollar or underscore. Those are the only nonletter characters that are allowed as identifiers
    eval("let " + character + ";");
    let regExSpecial = /[^\$_]/;
    return regExSpecial.test(character);
  } catch (error) {
    return false;
  }
}

console.log(testForLetter("!")); //returns false;
console.log(testForLetter("5")); //returns false;
console.log(testForLetter("ن")); //returns true;
console.log(testForLetter("_")); //returns false;