Character Methods

Two String methods access specific characters: charAt() and charCodeAt().

They both accept zero-based position as the parameter.

The charAt() method returns the character in the given position as a single-character string.


var stringValue = "hello world";
console.log(stringValue.charAt(1));   //"e"

The code above generates the following result.

charCodeAt() returns the character code instead of the actual character.


var stringValue = "hello world";
console.log(stringValue.charCodeAt(1));   //outputs "101"

This example outputs "101", which is the character code for the lowercase "e" character.

The code above generates the following result.

You can also use bracket notation with a numeric index to access a specific character in the string.


var stringValue = "hello world";
console.log(stringValue[1]);   //"e"

The code above generates the following result.