return the first non repeating character in a string in javascript

Question

So I tried looking for this in the search but the closest I could come is a similar answer in several different languages, I would like to use Javascript to do it.

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Answer 1

You can use the indexOf method to find the non repeating character. If you look for the character in the string, it will be the first one found, and you won't find another after it:

function firstNonRepeatedCharacter(string) {
  for (var i = 0; i < string.length; i++) {
    var c = string.charAt(i);
    if (string.indexOf(c) == i && string.indexOf(c, i + 1) == -1) {
      return c;
    }
  }
  return null;
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Guffa/Se4dD/